Bacterial metal detectors

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1205-1209

  Buchanan, Susan K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; IRON COMPLEX; METAL; RNA POLYMERASE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIDEROPHORES; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 28244432479     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04904.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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