The structure of the NasR transcription antiterminator reveals a one-component system with a NIT nitrate receptor coupled to an ANTAR RNA-binding effector

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 431-444

  Boudes, Marion ^a   Lazar, Noureddine ^a   Graille, Marc ^a   Durand, Dominique ^a   Gaidenko, Tatiana A ^b   Stewart, Valley ^b   Van Tilbeurgh, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NASR PROTEIN; NASX PROTEIN; NITRATE RECEPTOR; NITRITE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; LIGHT SCATTERING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NITRATES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA;

EID: 84864096708     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08111.x     Document Type: Article

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