Direct binding targets of the stringent response alarmone (p)ppGpp

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1029-1043

  Kanjee, Usheer ^a,c   Ogata, Koji ^b   Houry, Walid A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARMONE; AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DKSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE PENTAPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84866038398     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08177.x     Document Type: Article

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