Designed hyperstable Lac repressor·DNA loop topologies suggest alternative loop geometries

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 294, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-77

  Mehta, Ruchi A ^b   Kahn, Jason D ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

DNA bending; DNA cyclization; DNA looping; Supercoiling; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC STABILITY; ISOMER; LACTOSE OPERON; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033585029     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3244     Document Type: Article

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