FruR-mediated transcriptional activation at the ppsA promoter of Escherichia coli

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 276, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 355-365

  Nègre, Didier ^a   Oudot, Christelle ^a   Prost, Jean François ^a   Murakami, Katsuhiko ^b   Ishihama, Akira ^b   Cozzone, Alain J ^a   Cortay, Jean Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE ET CHIMIE DES PROTÉINES   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Base removal interference; FruR protein of Escherichia coli; Mutant subunit of RNA polymerase; ppsA gene; Transcription activation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HELIX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032548991     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1548     Document Type: Article

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