The oligomeric structure of nucleoid protein H-NS is necessary for recognition of intrinsically curved DNA and for DNA bending

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1795-1805

  Spurio, Roberto ^a   Falconi, Maurizio ^a   Brandi, Anna ^a   Pon, Cynthia L ^a   Gualerzi, Claudio O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Curved DNA; DNA bending; DNA binding proteins; Protein protein interaction in vivo; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CURVED DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LIGASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; PROLINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030976054     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.7.1795     Document Type: Article

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