The Eukaryotic-Like Ser/Thr Kinase PrkC Regulates the Essential WalRK Two-Component System in Bacillus subtilis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Libby, Elizabeth A ^a   Goss, Lindsie A ^a   Dworkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; EUKARYOTIC LIKE SERINE THREONINE KINASE PRKC; EUKARYOTIC LIKE SERINE THREONINE PHOSPHATASE PRPC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; YYCF PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ISEA GENE; NONHUMAN; PDAC GENE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PRPC GENE; REGULON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WALRK GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; POSIBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84937782702     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005275     Document Type: Article

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