Origin, diversification and substrate specificity in the family of NCS1/FUR transporters

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 927-950

  Krypotou, Emilia ^a   Evangelidis, Thomas ^a   Bobonis, Jacob ^a   Pittis, Alexandros A ^b,c   Gabaldón, Toni ^b,c,d   Scazzocchio, Claudio ^e,f   Mikros, Emmanuel ^a   Diallinas, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR; FLUOROURACIL; FURA PROTEIN; FURB PROTEIN; FURC PROTEIN; FURD PROTEIN; FURE PROTEIN; FURF PROTEIN; FURG PROTEIN; NCS1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL; CARRIER PROTEIN; COTRANSPORTER; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SYMPORTERS;

EID: 84929708779     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12982     Document Type: Article

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