Structural basis for gene regulation by a B12-dependent photoreceptor

Nature

Volumn 526, Issue 7574, 2015, Pages 536-541

  Jost, Marco ^a   Fernández Zapata, Jésus ^b   Polanco, María Carmen ^c   Ortiz Guerrero, Juan Manuel ^c,d   Chen, Percival Yang Ting ^a   Kang, Gyunghoon ^a   Padmanabhan, S ^b   Elías Arnanz, Montserrat ^c   Drennan, Catherine L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBAMAMIDE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DIMER; TETRAMER; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT EFFECT; PHOTORECEPTION; PROTEIN; VITAMIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DARKNESS; DIMERIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATOR GENE; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COBAMIDES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DARKNESS; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 84939150911     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14950     Document Type: Article

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