The small membrane protein MgrB regulates PhoQ bifunctionality to control PhoP target gene expression dynamics

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 430-445

  Salazar, Michael E ^a   Podgornaia, Anna I ^b   Laub, Michael T ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MAGNESIUM ION; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MGRB PROTEIN; PHOP PROTEIN; PHOQ PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MAGNESIUM; MGRB PROTEIN, E COLI; PHOP PROTEIN, E COLI; PHOQ PROTEIN, E COLI;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; MGRB GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROCEDURES; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MAGNESIUM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84983680165     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13471     Document Type: Article

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