The mechanism of a formaldehyde-sensing transcriptional regulator

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Denby, Katie J ^a   Iwig, Jeffrey ^b,e   Bisson, Claudine ^a   Westwood, Jodie ^a   Rolfe, Matthew D ^a   Sedelnikova, Svetlana E ^a   Higgins, Khadine ^c,f   Maroney, Michael J ^c   Baker, Patrick J ^a   Chivers, Peter T ^b,d   Green, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Carmot Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

^f SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FORMALDEHYDE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SELENOMETHIONINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG INACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INTERFEROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INACTIVATION, METABOLIC; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SELENOMETHIONINE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85006153579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep38879     Document Type: Article

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