Compensating effects of opposing changes in putrescine (2+) and K+ concentrations on lac repressor-lac operator binding: In vitro thermodynamic analysis and in vivo relevance

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-36

  Capp, Michael W ^a   Cayley, D Scott ^a   Zhang, Wentao ^a   Guttman, Harry J ^a   Melcher, Sonya E ^a   Saecker, Ruth M ^a   Anderson, Charles F ^a   Record Jr , M Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

lac operator; lac repressor; Protein DNA interactions; Putrescine; Salt effects

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; POLYAMINE; POTASSIUM ION; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOPLASM; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOSE OPERON; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; POTASSIUM CELL LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REPRESSOR GENE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029898078     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0231     Document Type: Article

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