Dissecting the molecular details of prokaryotic transcriptional control by surface plasmon resonance: The methionine and arginine repressor proteins

Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 637-650

  Stockley, Peter G ^a   Baron, Andrew J ^a   Wild, Catherine M ^a   Parsons, Isobel D ^a   Miller, Coleen M ^a   Holtham, Carol A M ^a   Baumberg, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arginine; Methionine; Repressors; Surface plasmon resonance; Transcriptional control

Indexed keywords

ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ARGININE; METHIONINE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL;

BIOSENSORS;

ARGININE; METHIONINE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

BIOSENSOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOSIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032531265     PISSN: 09565663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0956-5663(98)00019-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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