Overexpression, purification, and characterization of ProQ, a posttranslational regulator for osmoregulatory transporter ProP of Escherichia coli

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 41, 2004, Pages 12979-12989

  Smith, Michelle N ^a   Crane, Rebecca A ^a   Keates, Robert A B ^a   Wood, Janet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BIOSENSORS; CELLS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA; PROTEINS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

NICKEL CHELATE; OSMOREGULATORY TRANSPORTERS; OSMOTIC ACTIVATION; PROQ LESIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHELATING AGENT; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; HISTONE; MONOMER; NICKEL; PROTEIN FINO; PROTEIN PROP; PROTEIN PROQ; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ION EXCHANGE; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOREGULATION; PH; PLASMID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HISTIDINE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SYMPORTERS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 5444265451     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi048561g     Document Type: Article

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