The bacterial enhancer-binding protein NtrC as a molecular machine

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 157-166

  Rombel, I ^a,b   North, A ^a,c   Hwang, I ^a,d   Wyman, C ^a,e   Kustu, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c ONYX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^d Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HEPARIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENHANCER REGION; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HYDROLYSIS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; ELECTROPHORESIS; GLNA GENE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

EID: 0032457658     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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