Linkage between the bacterial acid stress and stringent responses: The structure of the inducible lysine decarboxylase

EMBO Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 931-944

  Kanjee, Usheer ^a   Gutsche, Irina ^b   Alexopoulos, Eftichia ^a,d   Zhao, Boyu ^a   El Bakkouri, Majida ^a   Thibault, Guillaume ^a,e   Liu, Kaiyin ^a   Ramachandran, Shaliny ^a   Snider, Jamie ^a   Pai, Emil F ^a,c   Houry, Walid A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d BBS Naturwissenschaften Ludwigshafen   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

acid stress; alarmone; lysine decarboxylase; oligomerisation; stringent response

Indexed keywords

ALARMONE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL METABOLISM; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ANTIPORTERS; CARBOXY-LYASES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79952280501     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.5     Document Type: Article

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