GalR mutants defective in repressosome formation

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1251-1262

  Geanacopoulos, Mark ^a   Vasmatzis, George ^a   Lewis, Dale E A ^a   Roy, Siddartha ^a,b   Lee, Byungkook ^a   Adhya, Sankar ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

DNA looping; GalR; GalR mutants; Protein protein interactions; Repression; Repressosome; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033563076     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.10.1251     Document Type: Article

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