Cleavage of a putative metal permease in Chlamydia trachomatis yields an iron-dependent transcriptional repressor

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

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10546-10551

  Thompson, Christopher C ^a   Nicod, Sophie S ^a   Malcolm, Denise S ^a   Grieshaber, Scott S ^b   Carabeo, Rey A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC 3 permease; Autorepression; Fusion protein; Metalloregulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IRON; PERMEASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTGCR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; IRON METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; IRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROTEOLYSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84862993745     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201398109     Document Type: Article

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