Crystal structure of the plant dual-affinity nitrate transporter NRT1.1

Nature

Volumn 507, Issue 7490, 2014, Pages 73-77

  Sun, Ji ^a   Bankston, John R ^b   Payandeh, Jian ^a,c   Hinds, Thomas R ^a   Zagotta, William N ^b   Zheng, Ning ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE TRANSPORTER; PROTEIN NRT1.1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GROWTH RATE; HERB; MAGNITUDE; NITRATE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; RESONANCE; SUBSTRATE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ARABIDOPSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ARABIDOPSIS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITRATES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTHREONINE; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTONS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84895889969     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13074     Document Type: Article

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