Conformational changes necessary for gene regulation by Tet repressor assayed by reversible disulfide bond formation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 5112-5119

  Tiebel, Beatrix ^a   Aung Hilbrich, Lwin Mar ^a   Schnappinger, Dirk ^a   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Induction; Redox dependent activity; Tetracycline; Transcriptional regulatory protein

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CYSTEINE; CYSTINE; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOTION; MUTATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0032167422     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.17.5112     Document Type: Article

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