Btcd, a mouse protein that binds to curved DNA, can substitute in Escherichia coli for H-NS, a bacterial nucleoid protein

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 3986-3992

  Timchenko, Tatiana ^a,b   Bailone, Adrians ^a   Devoret, Raymond ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Curved regulatory DNA sequences; Inter kingdom protein substitution; Non homologous proteins; Promoter regions; Zinc finger protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CURVED DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029764208     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00772.x     Document Type: Article

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