Mutational analysis of the thermostable arginine repressor from bacillus stearothermophilus: Dissecting residues involved in DNA binding properties

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 291, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 843-855

  Karaivanova, Iovka Miltcheva ^a   Weigel, Pierre ^a   Takahashi, Masayuki ^b   Fort, Cécile ^a   Versavaud, Alain ^a   Van Duyne, Gregory ^c   Charlier, Daniel ^d   Hallet, Jean Noël ^a   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^d   Sakanyan, Vehary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ArgR repressor; Bacillus stearothermophilus; Gene regulation; Mutagenesis; Thermostability

Indexed keywords

ARGININE REPRESSOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUSION; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0033609885     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3016     Document Type: Article

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