Sa-Lrp from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius is a versatile, glutamine-responsive, and architectural transcriptional regulator

MicrobiologyOpen

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-93

  Vassart, Amelia ^a   Van Wolferen, Marleen ^b   Orell, Alvaro ^b   Hong, Ye ^b,c   Peeters, Eveline ^a   Albers, Sonja Verena ^b   Charlier, Daniel ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaea; Glutamine; Lrp family; Pili; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLUTAMINE; LEUCINE RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIUM PILUS; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CELL ADHESION; COENZYMES; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GLUTAMINE; LEUCINE-RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

EID: 84886257275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20458827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.58     Document Type: Article

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