The crystal structure of the intact E. coli RelBE toxin-antitoxin complex provides the structural basis for conditional cooperativity

Structure

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1641-1648

  Boggild, Andreas ^a   Sofos, Nicholas ^a   Andersen, Kasper R ^a,c   Feddersen, Ane ^a   Easter, Ashley D ^b   Passmore, Lori A ^b   Brodersen, Ditlev E ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; ESCHERICHIA ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84867404222     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: 18784186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

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