ABC Transport Is Inactivated by the PTSNtr under Potassium Limitation in Rhizobium leguminosarum 3841

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Untiet, Verena ^a   Karunakaran, Ramakrishnan ^b   Krämer, Maria ^a   Poole, Philip ^b   Priefer, Ursula ^a   Prell, Jürgen ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POTASSIUM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINOISOBUTYRIC ACIDS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; HISTIDINE; MUTANT PROTEINS; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 84878393284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064682     Document Type: Article

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