A- and T-tract-mediated intrinsic curvature in native DNA between the binding site of the upstream activator NtrC and the nifLA promoter of Klebsiella pneumoniae facilitates transcription

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 5296-5302

  Cheema, Amrita Kaur ^a   Choudhury, Nirupam Roy ^a   Das, H K ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; PROTEIN NTRC; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA CONFORMATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENHANCER REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032881569     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.17.5296-5302.1999     Document Type: Article

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