Anion-coordinating residues at binding site 1 are essential for the biological activity of the diphtheria toxin repressor

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1806-1811

  Goranson Siekierke, Joanne ^a   Pohl, Ehmke ^b   Hol, Wim G J ^b   Holmes, Randall K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPORTER GENE;

CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE;

EID: 0033051018     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.4.1806-1811.1999     Document Type: Article

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