Redox regulation of OxyR requires specific disulfide bond formation involving a rapid kinetic reaction path

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1179-1185

  Lee, Cheolju ^a,b   Lee, Soon Mi ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Partha ^c   Kim, Seung Jun ^a   Lee, Sang Chul ^a   Ahn, Woo Sung ^b   Yu, Myeong Hee ^b   Storz, Gisela ^c   Ryu, Seong Eon ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; OXIDIZING AGENT; OXYR PROTEIN, E COLI; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRYPTOPHAN; UREA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

DISULFIDES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN; UREA;

EID: 16544369973     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb856     Document Type: Article

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