Design of thermolabile bacteriophage repressor mutants by comparative molecular modeling

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 980-983

  Nauta, Arjen ^a   Van Den Burg, Bertus ^a   Karsens, Harma ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Kok, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE R1T; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LACTOCOCCUS PHAGE 936; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030855955     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1097-980     Document Type: Article

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