Trp scanning analysis of Tet repressor reveals conformational changes associated with operator and anhydrotetracycline binding

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 821-829

  Kintrup, Martin ^a   Schubert, Peter ^a   Kunz, Michael ^a   Chabbert, Marie ^b   Alberti, Patricia ^c   Bombarda, Elisa ^c   Schneider, Siegfried ^a   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Gene regulation; Induction; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDE; ANHYDROTETRACYCLINE; PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TETRACYCLINES; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 0033964585     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01063.x     Document Type: Article

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