The arginine repressor of Escherichia coli K-12 makes direct contacts to minor and major groove determinants of the operators

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 277, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 805-824

  Wang, Haifeng ^a,c   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Charlier, Daniel ^b,c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Institut de Recherches du CERIA   (Belgium)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arginine repressor; CarAB; E. coli; Protein DNA interactions; Regulation

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYTOSINE; DISTAMYCIN A; INOSINE; METHYL GREEN; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; THYMINE; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; HYDROPHOBICITY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032502998     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1632     Document Type: Article

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