Aspartate D48 is essential for the GlnR-mediated transcriptional response to nitrogen limitation in Mycobacterium smegmatis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 330, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-45

  Jenkins, Victoria A ^a   Robertson, Brian D ^a   Williams, Kerstin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GlnR; Mycobacterium smegmatis; Nitrogen stress response

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLNR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE DELETION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 84859429187     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02530.x     Document Type: Letter

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