Genetic and Biochemical Dissection of a HisKA Domain Identifies Residues Required Exclusively for Kinase and Phosphatase Activities

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Willett, Jonathan W ^a   Kirby, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN CRDS; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPOROGENESIS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 84870660891     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003084     Document Type: Article

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