PipX, the coactivator of NtcA, is a global regulator in cyanobacteria

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

Volumn 111, Issue 23, 2014, Pages

  Espinosa, Javier ^a   Rodríguez Mateos, Francisco ^a   Salinas, Paloma ^a   Lanza, Val F ^b   Dixon, Ray ^c   De La Cruz, Fernando ^b   Contreras, Asuncion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nitrogen regulation; Photosynthesis; Transcription; Translation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PROTEIN PIPX; RNA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR NTCA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

NITROGEN REGULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSLATION;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84902136859     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404097111     Document Type: Article

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