Studies of the Escherichia coli Trp repressor binding to its five operators and to variant operator sequences

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 265, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 919-928

  Jeeves, Mark ^b   Evans, Paul D ^b   Parslow, Rosemary A ^b   Jaseja, Mahesh ^b   Hyde, Eva I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

DNA binding; Tandem binding; Trp operator; Trp repressor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRYPTOPHAN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0012099926     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00792.x     Document Type: Article

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