Functional roles for the GerE-family carboxylterminal domains of nitrate response regulators NarL and NarP of Escherichia coli K-12

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2933-2943

  Lin, Alice V ^a,b   Stewart, Valley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NITRATE; PROTEIN FIXJ; PROTEIN GERE; PROTEIN NARL; PROTEIN NARP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NITRATES; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 77957859781     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.040469-0     Document Type: Article

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