Structural classification of bacterial response regulators: Diversity of output domains and domain combinations

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4169-4182

  Galperin, Michael Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAC PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; MERR PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR; PROTEIN LYTTR; PROTEIN NARL; PROTEIN NTRC; PROTEIN RPOE; PROTEIN SPO0A; PROTEIN YCBB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CLASSIFICATION; LIGAND BINDING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33744983969     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01887-05     Document Type: Article

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