The Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi LeuO global regulator forms tetramers: Residues involved in oligomerization, DNA binding, and transcriptional regulation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2143-2154

  Guadarrama, Carmen ^a   Medrano López, Abraham ^a   Oropeza, Ricardo ^a   Hernández Lucas, Ismael ^a   Calva, Edmundo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; TETRAMER; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; LEUO GENE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHI; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901236472     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01484-14     Document Type: Article

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