Heme-based globin-coupled oxygen sensors: Linking oxygen binding to functional regulation of diguanylate cyclase, histidine kinase, and methyl-accepting chemotaxis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 27702-27711

  Martínková, Markéta ^a   Kitanishi, Kenichi ^b   Shimizu, Toru ^a,c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE; FUNCTIONAL REGULATION; HEME IRON; HISTIDINE KINASE; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; OXYGEN BINDING; SENSING PROPERTY; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMISTRY; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN SENSORS; PORPHYRINS;

PROTEINS;

BINDING PROTEIN; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIGUANYLATE CYCLASE; GLOBIN COUPLED OXYGEN SENSOR; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HEME; METHYL ACCEPTING CHEMOTAXIS PROTEIN; NITROGEN OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN HEMAT; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOOXIDATION; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BINDING; ENZYME REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CHEMOTAXIS; CYCLIC GMP (CGMP); HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; HISTIDINE KINASES; MYOGLOBIN; OXYGEN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BINDING SITES; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLOBINS; HEME; HEMOGLOBINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84884781778     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.R113.473249     Document Type: Review

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