The sigma 54 DNA-binding domain includes a determinant of enhancer responsiveness

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1200-1209

  Chaney, Matthew ^a   Buck, Martin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; ISOMERISM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; HOLOENZYMES; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032854067     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01566.x     Document Type: Article

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