Biophysical and bioinformatic analyses implicate the treponema pallidum tp34 lipoprotein (tp0971) in transition metal homeostasis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 6771-6781

  Brautigam, Chad A ^a   Deka, Ranjit K ^b   Ouyang, Zhiming ^b   Machius, Mischa ^a,c   Knutsen, Gregory ^a   Tomchick, Diana R ^a   Norgard, Michael V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COPPER ION; LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN TP34; NICKEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOPHYSICS; DIMERIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOSTASIS; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COBALT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COPPER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METALS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NICKEL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ZINC;

TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 84870818863     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01494-12     Document Type: Article

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