Binding of the Fur (ferric uptake regulator) repressor of Escherichia coli to arrays of the GATAAT sequence

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 537-547

  Escolar, Lucía ^a   Pérez Martín, José ^a   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

DNA repeats; Fur; Metalloregulation; Siderophore; Virulence

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HYDROXYL RADICAL; IRON; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA HELIX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032582478     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2119     Document Type: Article

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