Engineering robust control of two-component system phosphotransfer using modular scaffolds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 44, 2012, Pages 18090-18095

  Whitaker, Weston R ^a,b   Davis, Stephanie A ^a   Arkin, Adam P ^a,b,c   Dueber, John E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Protein engineering; Protein scaffolds; Signaling specificity

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TWO COMPONENT SYSTEM;

PHOSPHORUS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84868087234     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209230109     Document Type: Article

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