Critical base pairs and amino acid residues for protein-DNA interaction between the TyrR protein and tyrP operator of Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1051-1058

  Hwang, J S ^a   Yang, J ^a   Pittard, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 0031054108     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.4.1051-1058.1997     Document Type: Article

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