A purified mutant HemA protein from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium lacks bound heme and is defective for heme-mediated regulation in vivo

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-47

  Jones, Amy M ^a   Elliott, Thomas ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HemA; Heme; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMA PROTEIN; HEME; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPECTROSCOPY; WILD TYPE;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HEME; PROTEIN STABILITY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 77951953046     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01967.x     Document Type: Article

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