Effect of amino acid substitutions in the GerAA protein on the function of the alanine-responsive germinant receptor of Bacillus subtilis spores

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2268-2275

  Mongkolthanaruk, Wiyada ^a,b   Cooper, Gareth R ^a,c   Mawer, Julia S P ^a,d   Allan, Raymond N ^a,e   Moir, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Khon Kaen University   (Thailand)

^c TMO Renewables Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; ASPARAGINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GERAA PROTEIN; GERAC PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; PROLYLPHENYLALANYLPROLYLPROLINE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SPORE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SPORE GERMINATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 79955529235     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01398-10     Document Type: Article

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