An evolutionary link between sporulation and prophage induction in the structure of a repressor:anti-repressor complex

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 907-912

  Lewis, Richard J ^a   Brannigan, James A ^a   Offen, Wendy A ^a   Smith, Issar ^b   Wilkinson, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Prophage induction; Repressor; Sporulation; Structure

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EVOLUTION; GENE INDUCTION; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE 434; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032514949     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2163     Document Type: Article

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