Functional dissection of intersubunit interactions in the espr virulence regulator of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1889-1900

  Blasco, Benjamin ^a   Japaridze, Aleksandre ^a   Stenta, Marco ^a   Wicky, Basile I M ^a   Dietler, Giovanni ^a   Peraro, Matteo Dal ^a,b   Pojer, Florence ^a   Cole, Stewart T ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; DIMER; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; LYSINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN ESPR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ESPR GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84898867713     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00039-14     Document Type: Article

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