Cytoplasmic sensing by the inner membrane histidine kinase EnvZ

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 119-129

  Foo, Yong Hwee ^a   Gao, Yunfeng ^a   Zhang, Hongfang ^a,d   Kenney, Linda J ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Histidine kinase; Hydrogen:deuterium exchange mass spectrometry; Osmoregulation; Robustness; Super resolution microscopy; Two component regulatory system EnvZ OmpR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENVZ PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; OSMOLARITY RESPONSE REGULATOR PROTEINS; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OSMOREGULATION; PH; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; OSMOREGULATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84952630665     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.04.005     Document Type: Review

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