Crystal structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis CarD, an essential RNA polymerase binding protein, reveals a quasidomain-swapped dimeric structural architecture

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 879-884

  Kaur, Gundeep ^a   Dutta, Dipak ^a   Thakur, Krishan Gopal ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

CarD; CarD CdnL like family; Domain swapping; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; RNA polymerase binding protein; Transcription regulation; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

CARD PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER MOTIF; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84898031711     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24419     Document Type: Article

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