Molecular dissection of the mycobacterial stringent response protein Rel

Protein Science

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1449-1464

  Jain, Vikas ^a   Saleem Batcha, Raspudin ^a   China, Arnab ^a   Chatterji, Dipankar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Multimerization; ppGpp; Rel domains; Rel protein; Stringent response

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REL; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DATA BASE; HYDROLYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 33744481783     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.062117006     Document Type: Article

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