Proteomic analysis of Herbaspirillum seropedicae reveals ammonium-induced AmtB-dependent membrane sequestration of PII proteins

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-47

  Huergo, Luciano F ^a   Noindorf, Lilian ^a   Gimenes, Camila ^a   Lemgruber, Renato S P ^a   Cordellini, Daniela F ^a   Falarz, Lucas J ^a   Cruz, Leonardo M ^a   Monteiro, Rose A ^a   Pedrosa, Fábio O ^a   Chubatsu, Leda S ^a   Souza, Emanuel M ^a   Steffens, Maria B R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AmtB; GlnB; GlnK; Membrane protein; Nitrogen metabolism; Proteomics

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PROTEIN AMTB; PROTEIN GLNB; PROTEIN GLNK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; PROTEOME; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HERBASPIRILLUM; HERBASPIRILLUM SEROPEDICAE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEOMICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HERBASPIRILLUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEOME; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 77953152698     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01986.x     Document Type: Article

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