A design for life: Prokaryotic metal-binding MerR family regulators

BioMetals

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 429-436

  Hobman, Jon L ^a   Wilkie, John ^a   Brown, Nigel L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CueR; Cysteine coordination; MerR; MerR regulators; PbrR; ZntR

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; METAL; METHANOL EXTRACTION RESIDUE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE ACTIVATION; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYSTEINE; CYTOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTIDINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; METALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 24744435511     PISSN: 09660844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10534-005-3717-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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