A new mechanism for the control of a prokaryotic transcriptional regulator: Antagonistic binding of positive and negative effecters

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 765-776

  Schreiber, Valérie ^a   Steegborn, Clemens ^b   Clausen, Tim ^b   Boos, Winfried ^c   Richet, Evelyne ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MALTOTRIOSE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA-LYASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MALTOSE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRISACCHARIDES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033968803     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01747.x     Document Type: Article

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