Domain structure and RNA annealing activity of the Escherichia coli regulatory protein StpA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 847-857

  Cusick, Michael E ^a   Belfort, Marlene ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CURVED DNA; LINK PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031859492     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00848.x     Document Type: Article

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