Membrane sequestration by the EIIB domain of the mannitol permease MtlA activates the Bacillus subtilis mtl operon regulator MtlR

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 789-801

  Bouraoui, Houda ^a,b   Ventroux, Magali ^a   Noirot Gros, Marie Françoise ^a   Deutscher, Josef ^a,c   Joyet, Philippe ^a  

^a UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATNA   (Algeria)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MANNITOL PERMEASE MTLA; MANNITOL PERMEASE MTLA EIIB MANNITOL DOMAIN PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN MTLR; PROTEIN YWQC; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MTLA GENE; MTLF GENE; MTLR GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MANNITOL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; FIRMICUTES;

EID: 84873476781     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12131     Document Type: Article

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