Metal specificity of cyanobacterial nickel-responsive repressor InrS: Cells maintain zinc and copper below the detection threshold for InrS

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 797-812

  Foster, Andrew W ^a   Pernil, Rafael ^a   Patterson, Carl J ^a   Robinson, Nigel J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; NICKEL; PROTEIN INRS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; PROTEIN BINDING;

ALLOSTERISM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SENSOR; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; METABOLISM;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

COPPER; NICKEL; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SYNECHOCYSTIS; ZINC;

EID: 84899991141     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12594     Document Type: Article

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