The redox-regulated SoxR protein acts from a single DNA site as a repressor and an allosteric activator

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2629-2636

  Hidalgo, Elena ^a   Leautaud, Veronica ^a   Demple, Bruce ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Activator; Repressor; SoxR; soxS; Transcriptional switch

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SOXR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032079338     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.9.2629     Document Type: Article

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