Structural and thermodynamic characterization of the Escherichia coli RelBE toxin-antitoxin system: Indication for a functional role of differential stability

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 43, 2007, Pages 12152-12163

  Cherny, Izhack ^a   Overgaard, Martin ^b   Borch, Jonas ^b   Bram, Yaron ^a   Gerdes, Kenn ^b   Gazit, Ehud ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL STABILITY; PROTEASE SENSITIVE; THERMOSTABILITY;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOMERS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEOLYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN CCDA; PROTEIN PARD; PROTEIN RELE; PROTEINASE; RNA INTERFERASE; TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPLEX FORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT TOLERANCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THERMODYNAMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 35649008288     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi701037e     Document Type: Article

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