Assembly of the Transmembrane Domain of E. coli PhoQ Histidine Kinase: Implications for Signal Transduction from Molecular Simulations

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lemmin, Thomas ^a   Soto, Cinque S ^b   Clinthorne, Graham ^b   DeGrado, William F ^c   Dal Peraro, Matteo ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CHEMOSENSOR; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

CATIONIC ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES; E. COLI; HISTIDINE KINASE; HOMODIMERS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; SIGNALLING COMPLEX; TRANS-MEMBRANE DOMAINS; TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN; TRANSMEMBRANE HELIX; TWO COMPONENT SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASPARAGINE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN PHOQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMISTIC MODEL; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CROSS LINKING; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWO COMPONENT SYSTEM;

EID: 84873508521     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002878     Document Type: Article

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