Phosphatase activity of the histidine kinases ensures pathway specificity of the ChrSA and HrrSA two-component systems in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1326-1342

  Hentschel, Eva ^a   Mack, Christina ^a   Gätgens, Cornelia ^a   Bott, Michael ^a   Brocker, Melanie ^a   Frunzke, Julia ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEME OXYGENASE; PROTEIN CHRSA; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN HRRSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84901981649     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12633     Document Type: Article

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