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. 2017 Jan 13;53(3):86–94. doi: 10.1016/j.jdsr.2016.12.002

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Scheme of the two-component system. The sensory histidine kinase undergoes autophosphorylation of a histidine residue in response to an environmental signal and relays the phosphate group to an aspartic acid residue on the cognate response regulator (RR). The phosphorylated RR then binds to target DNA elements with strong affinity, activating or repressing the transcription of target genes.