Solution structure of Escherichia coli feoA and its potential role in bacterial ferrous iron transport

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 46-55

  Lau, Cheryl K Y ^a   Ishida, Hiroaki ^a   Liu, Zhihong ^a   Vogel, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FEOA PROTEIN; FEOB PROTEIN; FERROUS ION; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONFORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; IRON TRANSPORT; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84872034377     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01121-12     Document Type: Article

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