DNA looping and unlooping by AraC protein

Science

Volumn 250, Issue 4980, 1990, Pages 528-532

  Lobell, Robert B ^a,c,d   Schleif, Robert F ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CYTARABINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARABINOSE; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUCOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANINE; MACROMOLECULAR SYSTEMS; METHYLATION; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025202249     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.2237403     Document Type: Article

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