Trigger enzymes: Bifunctional proteins active in metabolism and in controlling gene expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 692-702

  Commichau, Fabian M ^a   Stülke, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; NITROGEN; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROLINE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN BGLF; PROTEIN BIRA; PROTEIN CITB; PROTEIN DHAK; PROTEIN DHAL; PROTEIN GLNA; PROTEIN GMAR; PROTEIN LACD 1; PROTEIN LEVE; PROTEIN MALK; PROTEIN MALY; PROTEIN MLC; PROTEIN NADR; PROTEIN PEPA; PROTEIN PTSG; PROTEIN PUTA; PROTEIN PYRH; PROTEIN PYRR; PROTEIN RIBR; PROTEIN ROCG; PROTEIN TKTA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; IRON METABOLISM; IRON RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 38449095243     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06071.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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