Solution structure of the C-terminal transcriptional activator domain of FixJ from Sinorhizobium meliloti and its recognition of the fixK promoter

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 45, 2005, Pages 14835-14844

  Kurashima Ito, Kaori ^a   Kasai, Yuichi ^a   Hosono, Kaito ^d   Tamura, Koji ^c,f   Oue, Soichi ^e   Isogai, Miho ^e   Ito, Yutaka ^a,c,g   Nakamura, Hiro ^a,b   Shiro, Yoshitsugu ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e GAKUSHUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; DNA; GENES; MONOMERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

PHORPHORYLATION; SINORHIZOBIUM; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

DIMER; DNA FRAGMENT; FIXJ PROTEIN; HOMODIMER; NARL PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; C TERMINAL TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATOR DOMAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; FIXK GENE; GEL SHIFT ASSAY; GENE ACTIVATION; HELIX TURN HELIX MOTIF; NIFA GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOLUTIONS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 27744470763     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0509043     Document Type: Article

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