The bacterial antitoxin HipB establishes a ternary complex with operator DNA and phosphorylated toxin HipA to regulate bacterial persistence

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 10134-10147

  Wen, Yurong ^a   Behiels, Ester ^a,b   Felix, Jan ^a   Elegheert, Jonathan ^a,b   Vergauwen, Bjorn ^a   Devreese, Bart ^a   Savvides, Savvas N ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; HIPA PROTEIN; HIPB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPERATOR GENE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SHEWANELLA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SHEWANELLA;

EID: 84922709449     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku665     Document Type: Article

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