Repressor assembly at trp binding sites is dependent on the identity of the intervening dinucleotide between the binding half sites

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103-117

  Bareket Samish, Avital ^a   Cohen, Ilana ^a   Haran, Tali E ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bendability; Bending; Tandem binding; trp operators; trp repressor

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0031582053     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0826     Document Type: Article

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