Structure of the metal-ion-activated diphtheria toxin repressor/tox operator complex

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6692, 1998, Pages 502-506

  White, André ^a   Ding, Xiaochun ^a,c   VanderSpek, Johanna C ^b   Murphy, John R ^b   Ringe, Dagmar ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; IRON COMPLEX;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE STRUCTURE; IRON METABOLISM; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REPRESSOR GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NICKEL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0032581662     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28893     Document Type: Article

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