The transcriptional regulator CprK detects chlorination by combining direct and indirect readout mechanisms

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1616, 2013, Pages

  Kemp, Laura R ^a   Dunstan, Mark S ^a   Fisher, Karl ^a   Warwicker, Jim ^a   Leys, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CprK; Green fluorescent protein; Halogen detection; Organohalide respiration; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; CHLORINATION; DATA SET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; PHENOL; PROTEIN; RESPIRATION; SUBSTRATE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

4 HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 4-HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHENYLACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HALOGENATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; REPORTER GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HALOGENATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENYLACETATES; PLASMIDS; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84884199447     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0323     Document Type: Article

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