Random and site-specific mutagenesis of the Helicobacter pylori ferric uptake regulator provides insight into Fur structure-function relationships

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 304-323

  Gilbreath, Jeremy J ^a   Pich, Oscar Q ^a   Benoit, Stéphane L ^b   Besold, Angelique N ^c   Cha, Jeong Heon ^d   Maier, Robert J ^b   Michel, Sarah L J ^c   Maynard, Ernest L ^a   Merrell, D Scott ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Yonsei University College of Dentistry   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR; IRON; MANGANESE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING SITE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMISSION ANISOTROPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 84880134730     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12278     Document Type: Article

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