The structure of the pleiotropic transcription regulator CodY provides insight into its GTP-sensing mechanism

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 9483-9493

  Han, Ah Reum ^a   Kang, Hye Ri ^a   Son, Jonghyeon ^a   Kwon, Do Hoon ^a   Kim, Sulhee ^a   Lee, Woo Cheol ^a   Song, Hyun Kyu ^a   Song, Moon Jung ^a   Hwang, Kwang Yeon ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ISOLEUCINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CODY PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MECHANISM; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84994607537     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw775     Document Type: Article

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