Nitrogen oxyanion-dependent dissociation of a two-component complex that regulates bacterial nitrate assimilation

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 41, 2013, Pages 29692-29702

  Luque Almagro, Victor M ^a,b   Lyall, Verity J ^a   Ferguson, Stuart J ^c   Roldán, M Dolores ^b   Richardson, David J ^a   Gates, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE; ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS; INORGANIC FERTILIZERS; NITRATE ASSIMILATION; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; REGULATORY COMPLEXES; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN;

BACTERIA; DISSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NASA; NITRATES; NITROGEN; POSITIVE IONS; PROTEINS; RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; AMMONIA; FERTILIZER; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; NITRATE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CYTOPLASM; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NASS GENE; NAST GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; LIGAND-BINDING PROTEIN; NITRATE ASSIMILATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; RNA SIGNALING; TWO-COMPONENT REGULATOR;

ANIONS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASE (NAD(P)H); NITRITES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84885662458     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.459032     Document Type: Article

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