From signal perception to signal transduction: Ligand-induced dimeric switch of DctB sensory domain in solution

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1484-1494

  Nan, Beiyan ^a,c   Liu, Xin ^a   Zhou, Yanfeng ^a,d   Liu, Jiwei ^a   Zhang, Le ^a   Wen, Jin ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^b   Su, Xiao Dong ^a   Wang, Yi Ping ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICARBOXYLIC ACID; DIMER; PROTEIN DCTB; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SUCCINIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DCTB PROTEIN, SINORHIZOBIUM; DICARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DICARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DIMERIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 77949363037     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07069.x     Document Type: Article

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