Recruitment of a novel zinc-bound transcriptional factor by a bacterial HMGA-type protein is required for regulating multiple processes in Myxococcus xanthus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 910-926

  Peñalver Mellado, Marcos ^a   García Heras, Francisco ^a   Padmanabhan, S ^a   García Moreno, Diana ^a   Murillo, Francisco J ^a   Elías Arnanz, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; GENE PRODUCT; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAROTENOIDS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HMGA PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33746517973     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05289.x     Document Type: Article

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