The activation defect of a λcI positive control mutant

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 265, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-265

  Whipple, Frederick W ^a   Ptashne, Mark ^b   Hochschild, Ann ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage cI protein; Gene regulation; Positive control; Positive control mutants; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0031046671     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0735     Document Type: Article

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