A PAS domain within F plasmid TraJ is critical for its function as a transcriptional activator

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 396-404

  Arutyunov, D ^a   Rodriguez Maillard, J M ^a   Frost, L S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cysteine; F plasmid; Metal; PAS; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE RESIDUES; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; MULTIPLE SUBSTITUTIONS; N-TERMINALS; ORTHOLOGUES; PAS; REDOX POTENTIALS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATIONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS;

AMINO ACIDS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRON COMPOUNDS; REDOX REACTIONS; SORPTION;

DNA;

CYSTEINE; SERINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRAJ GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CYSTEINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80051529272     PISSN: 08298211     EISSN: 12086002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/o11-028     Document Type: Article

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