Characterization of mutations in the PAS domain of the EvgS sensor kinase selected by laboratory evolution for acid resistance in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 911-927

  Johnson, Matthew D ^a,b   Bell, James ^a   Clarke, Kim ^a,c   Chandler, Rachel ^a   Pathak, Prachi ^a   Xia, Yandong ^a,d   Marshall, Robert L ^a   Weinstock, George M ^e,f   Loman, Nicholas J ^a   Winn, Peter J ^a   Lund, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID TOLERANCE; ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVGS GENE; EVOLUTION; GADE GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PAS DOMAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; YDEO GENE; YDEP GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PH; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ACID; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; EVGS PROTEIN, E COLI; PROTEIN KINASE;

ACIDS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84906940625     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12704     Document Type: Article

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