A conserved region in the σ54-dependent activator DctD is involved in both binding to RNA polymerase and coupling ATP hydrolysis to activation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 373-386

  Wang, Ying Kai ^a   Lee, Joon H ^a,c   Brewer, John M ^b   Hoover, Timothy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b National Institutes of Health ^*  (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MUTANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; APT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DCTD PROTEIN, RHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; DIMAPRIT; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BINDING SITE; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

RHIZOBIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIMAPRIT; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030609128     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.5851955.x     Document Type: Article

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