Adaptation of an enzyme to regulatory function: Structure of Bacillus subtilis PyrR, a pyr RNA-binding attenuation protein and uracil phosphoribosyltransferase

Structure

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 337-350

  Tomchick, Diana R ^a   Turner, Robert J ^b,c   Switzer, Robert L ^b   Smith, Janet L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Biosynthesis; Phosphoribosyltransferase; Pyrimidine; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032521544     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(98)00036-7     Document Type: Article

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