Function analysis of a bacterial tyrosine kinase, BtkB, in Myxococcus xanthus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-51

  Kimura, Yoshio ^a   Kato, Takuya ^a   Mori, Yumi ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial tyrosine kinase; Exopolysaccharide; Myxococcus xanthus; Yellow pigment

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METABOLISM; FRUITING BODY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 84867330930     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02651.x     Document Type: Article

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