Single-chain repressors containing engineered DNA-binding domains of the phage 434 repressor recognize symmetric or asymmetric DNA operators

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 118-131

  Simoncsits, András ^a   Chen, Jinqiu ^a   Percipalle, Piergiorgio ^a,b   Wang, Shenglun ^a   Törö, Imre ^a   Pongor, Sándor ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

434 repressor; Altered recognition specificity; Helix turn helix motif; Protein DNA interaction; Single chain proteins

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DIMER; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BACTERIOPHAGE 434; SALMONELLA;

EID: 0031582086     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0832     Document Type: Article

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