Insights into the Rrf2 repressor family - The structure of CymR, the global cysteine regulator of Bacillus subtilis

FEBS Journal

Volumn 278, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2689-2701

  Shepard, William ^a,b,c   Soutourina, Olga ^b,d   Courtois, Emmanuelle ^b,d   England, Patrick ^b,c   Haouz, Ahmed ^b,c   Martin Verstraete, Isabelle ^b,d  

^a SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

crystal structure; cysteine metabolism; Fe S clusters; protein DNA interaction; Rrf2 repressor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN CYMR; PROTEIN FADR; PROTEIN HUTC; PROTEIN RRF2; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TARGETING; GENOME SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; WINGED HELIX TURN HELIX MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYSTEINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79960598587     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08195.x     Document Type: Article

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