Cell Fate Regulation Governed by a Repurposed Bacterial Histidine Kinase

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Childers, W Seth ^a   Xu, Qingping ^b,c   Mann, Thomas H ^a   Mathews, Irimpan I ^b   Blair, Jimmy A ^a,d   Deacon, Ashley M ^b,c   Shapiro, Lucy ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Joint Center for Structural Genomics   (United States)

^d WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIVK PROTEIN; DIVL PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTRA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIVK PROTEIN, CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL FATE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; WILD TYPE; CELL CYCLE; DIMERIZATION; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; DIMERIZATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84920455185     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001979     Document Type: Article

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