Solution structure of the DNA-binding domain and model for the complex of multifunctional hexameric arginine repressor with DNA

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 819-826

  Sunnerhagen, Maria ^a,b   Nilges, Michael ^c   Otting, Gottfried ^a   Carey, Jannette ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; REPRESSOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 0030880717     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1097-819     Document Type: Article

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