Bacterial rotary export ATPases are allosterically regulated by the nucleotide second messenger cyclic-di-GMP

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 290, Issue 40, 2015, Pages 24470-24483

  Trampari, Eleftheria ^a   Stevenson, Clare E M ^a   Little, Richard H ^a   Wilhelm, Thomas ^b   Lawson, David M ^a   Malone, Jacob G ^a,c  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULES; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEINS;

ALLOSTERIC CONTROL; CONSERVED RESIDUES; HIGH AFFINITY BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS SPECIES; SIGNALING PATHWAYS; SITE-SPECIFIC MUTAGENESIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BINDING PROTEIN; CDG BINDING PROTEIN; CLPB2 PROTEIN; CYCLIC DI GMP; CYCLIC GMP; FLII PROTEIN; HRCN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIS(3',5')-CYCLIC DIGUANYLIC ACID; FLII PROTEIN, BACTERIA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PYRUVATE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; FLAGELLUM; IN VITRO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ALLOSTERIC SITE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC GMP; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PYRUVATE KINASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84943279589     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M115.661439     Document Type: Article

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