The activation domain of the MotA transcription factor from bacteriophage T4

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1992-2003

  Finnin, Michael S ^a,b   Cicero, Marco P ^a   Davies, Christopher ^a,c   Porter, Stephanie J ^a,c   White, Stephen W ^a,c   Kreuzer, Kenneth N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation domain; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Site directed mutagenesis; Transcription factor; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0030943758     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.8.1992     Document Type: Article

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