Cooperative and non-cooperative DNA binding modes of catabolite control protein CcpA from Bacillus megaterium result from sensing two different signals

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 266, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 665-676

  Gösseringer, Roger ^a   Küster, Elke ^a   Galinier, Anne ^b   Deutscher, Josef ^b   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon catabolite repression; Corepressor binding; DNase I footprinting; Gene regulation; Glucose control

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 0031557402     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0820     Document Type: Article

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