Symmetric signalling within asymmetric dimers of the Staphylococcus aureus receptor histidine kinase AgrC

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-57

  George Cisar, Elizabeth A ^a   Geisinger, Edward ^b   Muir, Tom W ^a   Novick, Richard P ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACCESSORY GENE REGULATOR; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUORUM SENSING; SECRETION; SENSOR; SIGNAL DETECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 70350162228     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06849.x     Document Type: Article

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