The unique regulation of iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis in a Gram-positive bacterium

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 22, 2014, Pages

  Santos, Joana A ^a,b   Alonso Garciá, Noelia ^a   Macedo Ribeiro, Sandra ^a   Barbosa Pereira, Pedro José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

DNA recognition; Helix turn helix motif; Rrf2 like regulator; Specificity modulation; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

IRON; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; MONOMER; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOGENESIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE LOCUS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SURFACE CHARGE; THERMICOLA POTENS;

DNA RECOGNITION; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIF; RRF2-LIKE REGULATOR; SPECIFICITY MODULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84901821729     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1322728111     Document Type: Article

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