The Escherichia coli SeqA protein binds specifically and co-operatively to two sites in hemimethylated and fully methylated oriC

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1319-1326

  Skarstad, Kirsten ^a   Lueder, Gerhild ^b   Lurz, Rudi ^b   Speck, Christian ^b   Messer, Walter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033935409     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01943.x     Document Type: Article

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