Transcriptional repressor CopR: Amino acids involved in forming the dimeric interface

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 408-416

  Steinmetzer, Katrin ^a   Hillisch, Alexander ^b,d   Behlke, Joachim ^c   Brantl, Sabine ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d EnTec GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD measurements; CopR; Dimeric interface; Plasmid replication control; Site directed mutagenesis; Transcriptional repressor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA BINDING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 0034214188     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(20000601)39:4<408::AID-PROT130>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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