Sporulation Phosphorelay Proteins and Their Complexes: Crystallographic Characterization

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 422, Issue , 2007, Pages 102-122

  Varughese, Kottayil I ^a   Zhao, Haiyan ^a   Veldore, Vidya Harini ^a   Zapf, James ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN SPO0AC; PROTEIN SPO0B; PROTEIN SPO0F; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; CELL DIVISION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 34447105794     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)22005-6     Document Type: Chapter

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