The presence of two DnaA-binding sequences is required for an efficient interaction of the Escherichia coli DnaA protein with each particular weak DnaA box region

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-31

  Konopa, Grazyna ^a   Szalewska Palasz, Agnieszka ^a   Schmidt, Andrea ^b   Śrutkowska, Sylwia ^a   Messer, Walter ^b   Wȩgrzyn, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

DnaA DNA interaction; Electron microscopy; Escherichia coli DnaA protein; Transcription termination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA A; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEIN BINDING; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032901621     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00116-0     Document Type: Article

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