Ligand-linked structural changes in the Escherichia coli biotin repressor: The significance of surface loops for binding and allostery

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 619-632

  Streaker, Emily D ^a   Beckett, Dorothy ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostery; Ligand binding; Protein footprinting; Surface loops

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; BACTERIAL DNA; BIOTIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; HYDROXYL RADICAL; SYNTHETASE;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REPRESSOR GENE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033600802     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3086     Document Type: Article

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