The complexity of the 'simple' two-component system KdpD/KdpE in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 304, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 97-106

  Heermann, Ralf ^a   Jung, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ntr PTS; Osmotic stress; Response regulator; Scaffold protein; Sensor kinase; Universal stress protein

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; KDPD PROTEIN; KDPE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; USPC PROTEIN;

CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SENSOR; SHORT SURVEY; STIMULATION; STIMULUS; STRESS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77149153391     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01906.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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