Importance of the proline-rich region for the regulatory function of RcsF, an outer membrane lipoprotein component of the Escherichia coli Rcs signal transduction system

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART 9, 2013, Pages 1818-1827

  Umekawa, Mitsuru ^a   Miyagawa, Hiroyoshi ^a   Kondo, Daitetsu ^a   Matsuoka, Satoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Kouji ^a   Hara, Hiroshi ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN RCSF; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; PROLINE RICH PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

EID: 84883366818     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.069328-0     Document Type: Article

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