Interaction network in cyanobacterial nitrogen regulation: PipX, a protein that interacts in a 2-oxoglutarate dependent manner with PII and NtcA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 457-469

  Espinosa, Javier ^a,b   Forchhammer, Karl ^b   Burillo, Sergio ^a   Contreras, Asunción ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PROTEIN P2; PROTEIN PIPX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NTCA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; NITROGEN; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; SERINE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33748509737     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05231.x     Document Type: Article

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