A new small regulatory protein, HmuP, modulates haemin acquisition in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1873-1882

  Amarelle, Vanesa ^a   Koziol, Uriel ^a,b   Rosconi, Federico ^a   Noya, Francisco ^a   O'Brian, Mark R ^c   Fabiano, Elena ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Uruguay)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; DEFEROXAMINE MESYLATE; FERRIC CHLORIDE; GENOMIC DNA; HEME; HEMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN HMUP; PROTEIN SHMR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIRA PROTEIN; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALFALFA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BETA SHEET; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HMUP GENE; HMUS GENE; INTERNALIZATION; IRON RESTRICTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHMR GENE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; HEMIN; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77953195682     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.037713-0     Document Type: Article

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