Evolutionary link between the mycobacterial pLAsmid pal5000 replication protein RepB and the extracytoplasmic function family of σ factors

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1331-1341

  Basu, Arnab ^a   Chatterjee, Sujoy ^a,b   Chatterjee, Soniya ^a   Gupta, Sujoy K Das ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; HELICASE; PROTEIN REPB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGMA FACTOR;

ACTINOBACTERIA;

EID: 84863288261     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06218-11     Document Type: Article

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