Structural Analysis of Ligand Stimulation of the Histidine Kinase NarX

Structure

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-201

  Cheung, Jonah ^a   Hendrickson, Wayne A ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

PROTEINS; SIGNALING

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE KINASE NARX; NITRATE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 59649092359     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2008.12.013     Document Type: Article

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