Structure of the oligomerization and L-arginine binding domain of the arginine repressor of Escherichia coli

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 377-391

  Van Duyne, Gregory D ^a,c   Ghosh, Gourisankar ^a,d   Maas, Werner K ^b   Sigler, Paul B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine; ArgR; Hexamer; Repressor; Structure

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0029670095     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0093     Document Type: Article

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