Site-directed mutagenesis of the temperature-sensing histidine protein kinase CorS from Pseudomonas syringae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 283, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 231-238

  Smirnova, Angela V ^a   Braun, Yvonne ^a   Ullrich, Matthias S ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronatine; Histidine protein kinase; Site directed mutagenesis; Temperature; Two component regulatory system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CORONATINE; CORP ENZYME; CORR ENZYME; CORS ENZYME; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE CLONE; THERMORECEPTOR; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; INDENES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POINT MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. GLYCINEA;

EID: 43549094435     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01179.x     Document Type: Article

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