CsoR is a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis copper-sensing transcriptional regulator

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-68

  Liu, Tong ^a   Ramesh, Arati ^a   Ma, Zhen ^a   Ward, Sarah K ^b   Zhang, Limei ^c   George, Graham N ^c   Talaat, Adel M ^b   Sacchettini, James C ^a   Giedroc, David P ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; COPPER; COPPER SPECIFIC REPRESSOR PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; DNA FRAGMENT; HISTIDINE; HOMODIMER; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33845736364     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio844     Document Type: Article

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