Influence of high pressure on the dimerization of ToxR, a protein involved in bacterial signal transduction

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 7821-7823

  Linke, Kai ^a   Periasamy, Nagarajan ^b   Ehrmann, Matthias ^a   Winter, Roland ^b   Vogel, Rudi F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LIPID BILAYERS; PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL SIGNAL TRANSDUCTIONS; DIMER DISSOCIATIONS; HIGH HYDROSTATIC PRESSURES; HIGH PRESSURES; IN-VIVO; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; TRANSMEMBRANE SEGMENTS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN TOXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LIPID; PRESSURE EFFECT; PROTEIN; REACTION KINETICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 57449116328     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02028-08     Document Type: Article

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