Crystal Structures of Two Transcriptional Regulators from Bacillus cereus Define the Conserved Structural Features of a PadR Subfamily

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Fibriansah, Guntur ^a,b   Kovács, Ákos T ^a,c   Pool, Trijntje J ^a   Boonstra, Mirjam ^a   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a   Thunnissen, Andy Mark W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTIBIOTIC AS 48; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; LIGAND; PADR1 LIKE TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR; PADR2 LIKE TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR; PROTEIN LMRR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DETOXIFICATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA HELIX; DRUG BINDING; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LIGAND BINDING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFATES;

BACILLUS CEREUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

EID: 84870007802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048015     Document Type: Article

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