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Autophosphorylation and phosphatase activities of the oxygen-sensing protein FixL of Rhizobium meliloti are coordinately regulated by oxygen.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 25 Feb 1993
Lois A F, Weinstein M, Ditta G S, Helinski D R
Abstract excerpt
The FixL and FixJ proteins of Rhizobium meliloti control the expression of other nif and fix genes in response to oxygen levels. FixL is a hemoprotein kinase that senses oxygen availability and responds to the absence of oxygen by activation of its autophosphorylating activity followed by transfer of the phosphate to FixJ. FixJ in turn activates the nifA and fixK promoters. In vitro studies reported here with a...
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