Quantitative specificity of the Mnt repressor

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 178-194

  Fields, Dana S ^a   He, Yi Yuan ^a   Al Uzri, Ahmed Y ^a   Stormo, Gary D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA protein interaction; DNA protein specificity; Information content; Mnt protein; Quantitative DNA sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE P22; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA SEQUENCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SALMONELLA;

SALMONELLA;

EID: 0031571660     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1171     Document Type: Article

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