Amino acid-amino acid contacts at the cooperativity interface of the bacteriophage λ and p22 repressors

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2791-2802

  Whipple, Frederick W ^a   Hou, Emmeline F ^a   Hochschild, Ann ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge reversal mutants; Cooperativity; Mutant suppressor pairs; P22 repressor; Protein protein interactions; repressor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0032167669     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.17.2791     Document Type: Article

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