Specificity of the E. coli LysR-type transcriptional regulators

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Knapp, Gwendowlyn S ^a,c   Hu, James C ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PROTEIN LYSR TYPE TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR; THIOREDOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; LYSR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CROSS BREEDING; DIMERIZATION; DOMINANT GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DIMERIZATION; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, DOMINANT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; THIOREDOXINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78650890765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015189     Document Type: Article

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