PII signal transducers: novel functional and structural insights

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 65-72

  Forchhammer, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; CARBON; CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE KINASE; NITROGEN; PROTEIN P II; PROTEIN PAM A; PROTEIN PIPX; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENYLATION; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 39049106044     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2007.11.004     Document Type: Review

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