Reconstructing the evolutionary history of nitrotoluene detection in the transcriptional regulator NtdR

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 826-843

  Ju, Kou San ^a   Parales, Juanito V ^a   Parales, Rebecca E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 NITROTOLUENE; 2,4 DINITROTOLUENE; 2,6 DINITROTOLUENE; 3 NITROBENZOIC ACID; 3 NITROTOLUENE; 4 NITROBENZOIC ACID; 4 NITROTOLUENE; AROMATIC CARBOXYLIC ACID; AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BENZYL ALCOHOL; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACID; NAPHTHALENE; NITROBENZENE; NITROGEN; PROTEIN NAGR; PROTEIN NTDR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SALICYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDOVORAX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COMAMONADACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; NAPHTHALENES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RALSTONIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TOLUENE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ACIDOVORAX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RALSTONIA SP.;

EID: 70449581552     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06904.x     Document Type: Article

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