Mapping essential domains of Mycobacterium smegmatis WhmD: Insights into WhiB structure and function

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6966-6976

  Raghunand, Tirumalai R ^a   Bishai, William R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; IRON; LEUCINE; METAL ION; PROTEIN WHIB; PROTEIN WHMD; REDUCING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; WHIB GENE; WHMD GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REDUCING AGENTS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 33748780411     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00384-06     Document Type: Article

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