GvpD-induced breakdown of the transcriptional activator GvpE of halophilic archaea requires a functional p-loop and an arginine-rich region of GvpD

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 947-958

  Scheuch, Sandra ^a   Pfeifer, Felicitas ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN GVPD; PROTEIN GVPE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HALOPHILIC ARCHAEON; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI;

EID: 34247270313     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/004499-0     Document Type: Article

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