Alanine-scanning mutagenesis of bacillus subtilis trp RNA-binding attenuation protein (TRAP) reveals residues involved in tryptophan binding and RNA binding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 270, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 696-710

  Yang, Min ^a   Chen, Xiao ping ^a   Militello, Kevin ^a,b   Hoffman, Robert ^a   Fernandez, Bruce ^a   Baumann, Chris ^a,c   Gollnick, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

RNA binding; Site directed mutagenesis; TRAP; Tryptophan binding; Tryptophan biogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LYSINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031214216     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1149     Document Type: Article

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