DNA-binding characteristics of the Escherichia coli CytR regulator: A relaxed spacing requirement between operator half-sites is provided by a flexible, unstructured interdomain linker

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-50

  Jorgensen C I ^a   Kallipolitis, B H ^a   Valentin Hansen, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFURIC ACID ESTERS;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031962822     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00655.x     Document Type: Article

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