Apo-AraC actively seeks to loop

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 278, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 529-538

  Seabold, Robert R ^a   Schleif, Robert F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AraC; DNA looping; Gene expression; Partition function; Relative affinities

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032496390     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1713     Document Type: Article

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