Determination of the essentiality of the eight cysteine residues of the NrtA protein for high-affinity nitrate transport and the generation of a functional cysteine-less transporter

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5471-5477

  Unkles, Shiela E ^a   Rouch, Duncan A ^b   Wang, Ye ^c   Siddiqi, M Yaeesh ^c   Okamoto, Mamoru ^c   Stephenson, Raymond M ^a   Kinghorn, James R ^a   Glass, Anthony D M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMISTRY; MUTAGENESIS; SCANNING;

CYSTEINE-SCANNING MUTAGENESIS; NITRATE TRANSPORT ACTIVITY; SITE-SPECIFIC MUTAGENESIS; THIOL CHEMISTRY;

PROTEINS;

AMINO ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; NITRATE; NITRATE TRANSPORTER; NRTA PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NITRATES;

EID: 16844371085     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi047732e     Document Type: Article

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