Specificity residues determine binding affinity for two-component signal transduction systems

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Willett, Jonathan W ^a   Tiwari, Nitija ^b   Müller, Susanne ^a   Hummels, Katherine R ^a   Houtman, Jon C D ^a   Fuentes, Ernesto J ^b   Kirby, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CRDS PROTEIN; NTRC PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GENE ORDER; KINETICS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84891612853     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00420-13     Document Type: Article

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