Amino acid residues crucial for specificity of toxin-antitoxin interactions in the homologous Axe-Txe and YefM-YoeB complexes

FEBS Journal

Volumn 280, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 5906-5918

  Połom, Dorota ^a   Boss, Lidia ^a   Wȩgrzyn, Grzegorz ^a   Hayes, Finbarr ^b   Kȩdzierska, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

axe txe; protein interaction specificity; toxin antitoxin; yefM yoeB

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; AXE TXE COMPLEX; BACTERIAL TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YEFM YOEB COMPLEX;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AXE-TXE; PROTEIN INTERACTION SPECIFICITY; TOXIN-ANTITOXIN; YEFM-YOEB;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84886599842     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.12517     Document Type: Article

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