Crystal structure of the GlnZ-DraG complex reveals a different form of P II-target interaction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 47, 2011, Pages 18972-18976

  Rajendran, Chitra ^a   Gerhardt, Edileusa C M ^b   Bjelic, Sasa ^a   Gasperina, Antonietta ^a   Scarduelli, Marcelo ^b   Pedrosa, Fábio O ^b   Chubatsu, Leda S ^b   Merrick, Mike ^c   Souza, Emanuel M ^b   Winkler, Fritz K ^a   Huergo, Luciano F ^b   Li, Xiao Dan ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ADP ribosylation; Ammonium transport; Membrane sequestration; Nitrogenase regulation; PII protein

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMTB PROTEIN; DRAG PROTEIN; GLNB PROTEIN; GLNZ PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 82755187764     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108038108     Document Type: Article

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