Requirement for two conserved cysteine residues in the Ada protein of Escherichia coli for transactivation of the ada promoter

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 523-532

  Taketomi, A ^a   Nakabeppu, Y ^a   Ihara, K ^a   Hart, D J ^a   Furuichi, M ^a   Sekiguchi, M ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive response; Alkylating agent; Methylation; O6 Methylguanine DNA methyltransferase; Zinc protein

Indexed keywords

ADA PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ADA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029993657     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050105     Document Type: Article

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