Four dimers of λ repressor bound to two suitably spaced pairs of λ operators form octamers and DNA loops over large distances

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 151-154

  Révet, Bernard ^a   Von Wilcken Bergmann, Brigitte ^b   Bessert, Heike ^b   Barker, Andrew ^b   Müller Hill, Benno ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BASE PAIRING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PLASMID DNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033545416     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80069-4     Document Type: Article

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