Biological insights from structures of two-component proteins

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2009, Pages 133-154

  Gao, Rong ^a   Stock, Ann M ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Histidine kinase; Phosphorylation; Phosphotransfer; Response regulator; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

ADAPTATION; AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CATALYSIS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70349541000     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.091208.073214     Document Type: Review

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