Characterization of a two-component signal transduction system that controls arsenite oxidation in the chemolithoautotroph NT-26

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 313, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-28

  Sardiwal, Sunita ^a   Santini, Joanne M ^a   Osborne, Thomas H ^a   Djordjevic, Snezana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AAA+ protein; Arsenite oxidation; Arsenite sensing; Histidine kinase; Response regulator

Indexed keywords

AROA ENZYME; AROB ENZYME; AROR ENZYME; AROS ENZYME; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; NT 26; OXIDIZING AGENT; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPH; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; LETTER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARSENITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN KINASES; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 78349291126     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02121.x     Document Type: Letter

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