The role of the GAF and central domains of the transcriptional activator VnfA in Azotobacter vinelandii

FEBS Journal

Volumn 278, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3287-3297

  Yoshimitsu, Kyohei ^a   Takatani, Nobuyuki ^a   Miura, Yukio ^a   Watanabe, Yoshihito ^a   Nakajima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azotobacter vinelandii; iron sulfur cluster; nitrogenase; NTPase activity; transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CYSTINE; DNA; GAF PROTEIN; IRON; SULFUR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VNFA PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IRON SULFUR CLUSTER BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOENZYMES; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; HOLOENZYMES; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOSIDE-TRIPHOSPHATASE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII;

EID: 80052514783     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08245.x     Document Type: Article

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