Transmembrane polar interactions are required for signaling in the Escherichia coli sensor kinase PhoQ

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 8141-8146

  Goldberg, Shalom D ^a   Clinthorne, Graham D ^a   Goulian, Mark ^b   DeGrado, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Histidine kinase; Membrane proteins; Signal transduction mechanism; Two component signaling

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARAGINE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SENSOR KINASE PHOQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77952394522     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003166107     Document Type: Article

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