Detection of tetramerization domains in vivo by cooperative DNA binding to tandem λ operator sites

Gene

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 245-249

  Zeng, Xiangang ^a   Hu, James C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimer; GCN4 leucine zipper; Promoter cloning system; Repressor fusion

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; DNA; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; OLIGOMER;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUSION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0031045215     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00652-X     Document Type: Article

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