Domain motions accompanying Tet repressor induction defined by changes of interspin distances at selectively labeled sites

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 229-240

  Tiebel, Beatrix ^a   Radzwill, Nicole ^b   Aung Hilbrich, Lwin Mar ^a   Helbl, Vera ^a   Steinhoff, Heinz Jürgen ^b   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipolar interaction; Electron spin resonance spectroscopy; Site directed spin labeling; Spin labels; Tetracycline

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DIMER; NITROXIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPRESSOR GENE;

NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033516508     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2875     Document Type: Article

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