Environmental control of phosphorylation pathways in a branched two-component system

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 475-489

  López Redondo, Maria Luisa ^a   Moronta, Felix ^b   Salinas, Paloma ^b   Espinosa, Javier ^b   Cantos, Raquel ^b   Dixon, Ray ^c   Marina, Alberto ^a   Contreras, Asunción ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NBLS PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; RPAB PROTEIN; SRRA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN KINASES; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 7942;

EID: 78649388101     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07348.x     Document Type: Article

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