A protein switch with tunable steepness reconstructed in Escherichia coli cells with eukaryotic signaling proteins

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 421, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 731-735

  Takahashi, Masahiro ^a   Shibata, Tatsuo ^b   Yanagida, Toshio ^c   Sako, Yasushi ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MAPK cascade; Protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation; Reconstruction; Zeroth order ultrasensitivity

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE 1; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84861221197     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.04.071     Document Type: Article

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