Cross-talk between topoisomerase I and HU in Escherichia coli

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 292-300

  Bensaid, Abderazzak ^a   Almeida, Anna ^a   Drlica, Karl ^b   Rouviere Yaniv, Josette ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA supercoiling; Escherichia coli; HU; Relaxing activity; Topoisomerases

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

EID: 0029939230     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0086     Document Type: Article

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