The transactivation region of the Fis protein that controls site-specific DNA inversion contains extended mobile β-hairpin arms

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 6860-6873

  Safo, Martin K ^a,d   Yang, Wei Zen ^d   Corselli, Leah ^b   Cramton, Sarah E ^b,c   Yuan, Hanna S ^d   Johnson, Reid C ^b  

^a Virginia Biotechnology Research Park   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; DNA inversion; Fis; Site specific DNA recombination; Transactivation

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA RECOMBINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYSTEINE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030842186     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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