Genetic and biochemical analysis of the serine/threonine protein kinases PknA, PknB, PknG and PknL of Corynebacterium glutamicum: Evidence for non-essentiality and for phosphorylation of OdhI and FtsZ by multiple kinases

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 724-741

  Schultz, Christian ^a   Niebisch, Axel ^a   Schwaiger, Astrid ^b   Viets, Ulrike ^a   Metzger, Sabine ^c   Bramkamp, Marc ^b   Bott, Michael ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; PKNA ENZYME; PKNB ENZYME; PKNG ENZYME; PKNL ENZYME; PROTEIN ODHL; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DELETION MUTANT; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH INHIBITION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CELL DIVISION; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; KETOGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THREONINE;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

EID: 70350423494     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06897.x     Document Type: Article

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