Escherichia coli purine repressor: Key residues for the allosteric transition between active and inactive conformations and for interdomain signaling

Biochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 45, 1998, Pages 15680-15690

  Lu, Fu ^a   Brennan, Richard G ^b   Zalkin, Howard ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; HYPOXANTHINE; PURINE;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA BINDING; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; APOPROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032506050     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi981617k     Document Type: Article

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