Structural Underpinnings of Nitrogen Regulation by the Prototypical Nitrogen-Responsive Transcriptional Factor NrpR

Structure

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1512-1521

  Wisedchaisri, Goragot ^a   Dranow, David M ^a   Lie, Thomas J ^b   Bonanno, Jeffrey B ^c   Patskovsky, Yury ^c   Ozyurt, Sinem A ^d   Sauder, J Michael ^d   Almo, Steven C ^c   Wasserman, Stephen R ^e   Burley, Stephen K ^d   Leigh, John A ^b   Gonen, Tamir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; NITROGEN; PROTEIN NRPR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE REPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; METHANOCOCCUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NITROGEN; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 78149422245     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2010.08.014     Document Type: Article

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