Escherichia coli lac repressor-lac operator interaction and the influence of allosteric effectors

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-7

  Horton, Nancy ^a,b   Lewis, Mitchell ^a   Lu, Ponzy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allosteric protein; lac operator; lac repressor; Protein DNA interaction

Indexed keywords

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INDUCTION; LACTOSE OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REPRESSOR GENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031561797     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0706     Document Type: Editorial

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