Bacillus subtilis Fnr senses oxygen via a [4Fe-4S] cluster coordinated by three cysteine residues without change in the oligomeric state

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1432-1445

  Reents, Heike ^a   Gruner, Ines ^a   Harmening, Ute ^a   Böttger, Lars H ^b   Layer, Gunhild ^c   Heathcote, Peter ^d   Trautwein, Alfred X ^b   Jahn, Dieter ^a   Härtig, Elisabeth ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; FNR PROTEIN; IRON; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING ASSAY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CLUSTER; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; OPERON; OXYGEN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33744500236     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05198.x     Document Type: Article

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