A histidine aspartate ionic lock gates the iron passage in miniferritins from Mycobacterium smegmatis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 11042-11058

  Williams, Sunanda Margrett ^a   Chandran, Anu V ^a   Vijayabaskar, Mahalingam S ^b   Roy, Sourav ^c   Balaram, Hemalatha ^c   Vishveshwara, Saraswathi ^a   Vijayan, Mamannamana ^a   Chatterji, Dipankar ^a,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; FREE RADICALS; PROTEINS;

ASPARTATES; DNA-BINDING PROTEIN; IONIC CLUSTERS; IRON UPTAKE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; STARVED CELLS;

IRON;

ASPARTIC ACID; DPS PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; IRON;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DPS GENE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; IRON KINETICS; IRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NANOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WILD TYPE;

DNA-BINDING PROTEIN; ION CHANNELS; IONIC CLUSTER; IRON; IRON OXIDATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FERRITINS; HISTIDINE; IRON; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84899005526     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.524421     Document Type: Article

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