The structural and functional organization of H-NS-like proteins is evolutionarily conserved in Gram-negative bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 319-329

  Bertin, Philippe ^a   Benhabiles, Nora ^b   Krin, Evelyne ^a   Laurent Winter, Christine ^a   Tendeng, Christian ^a   Turlin, Evelyne ^a   Thomas, Annick ^b   Danchin, Antoine ^a   Brasseur, Robert ^c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; DATA BASE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; STRUCTURAL GENE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; ENTEROBACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS ORYRAE;

EID: 0032920078     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01176.x     Document Type: Article

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