New insight into transmembrane topology of Staphylococcus aureus histidine kinase AgrC

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1838, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 988-993

  Wang, Lina ^a   Quan, Chunshan ^b,c   Xiong, Wen ^b,c   Qu, Xiaojing ^b,c   Fan, Shengdi ^b,c   Hu, Wenzhong ^b,c  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b DALIAN NATIONALITIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

AgrC; GFP; SCAM; Staphylococcus aureus; Topology

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

AGRA GENE; AGRC GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE INTERACTION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBSTITUTED CYSTEINE ACCESSIBILITY METHOD; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AGRC; GFP; SCAM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOPOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL MEMBRANE; CYSTEINE; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES;

EID: 84891763773     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: 18792642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.12.006     Document Type: Article

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