The NifL-NifA System: A Multidomain Transcriptional Regulatory Complex That Integrates Environmental Signals

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 601-610

  Martinez Argudo, Isabel ^a   Little, Richard ^a   Shearer, Neil ^a   Johnson, Philip ^a   Dixon, Ray ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN NIFA; PROTEIN NIFL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC CODE; INHIBITION KINETICS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NITROGEN BALANCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 1642500165     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.3.601-610.2004     Document Type: Short Survey

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