Effects of systematic variation of the minimal Escherichia coli met consensus operator site: In vivo and in vitro met repressor binding

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1125-1135

  Wild, Catherine M ^a   McNally, Teresa ^a,b   Phillips, Simon E V ^a   Stockley, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b AP10   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029814351     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.00055.x     Document Type: Article

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