Environmental heme-based sensor proteins: Implications for understanding bacterial pathogenesis

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1232-1245

  Farhana, Aisha ^a   Saini, Vikram ^a   Kumar, Ashwani ^b   Lancaster, Jack R ^c   Steyn, Adrie J C ^a,c,d,e  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d AFRICA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; COOA PROTEIN; DOSS PROTEIN; DOST PROTEIN; ECDOS PROTEIN; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HEME; HEME BASED SENSOR PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROTOPORPHYRIN; RCOM PROTEIN; SENSOR OF NITRIC OXIDE; SOLUBLE GUANYLATE CYCLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETOBACTER; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOGENESIS; BURKHOLDERIA; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SENSING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA XENOVORANS; ESCHERICHIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

EID: 84862760868     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: 15577716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2012.4613     Document Type: Review

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