Roles of the heme and heme ligands in the activation of CooA, the CO-sensing transcriptional activator

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 348, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 345-350

  Youn, Hwan ^a   Conrad, Mary ^a   Chung, Soo Yeol ^a   Roberts, Gary P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Activating regions; CO; Heme; Ligands; Transcription activation

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; COOA PROTEIN; HEME; HISTIDINE; HOMODIMER; LIGAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; HISTIDINE; LIGANDS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

EID: 33746879537     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.06.200     Document Type: Article

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