Conformational changes induced in the Tet repressor protein TetR(B) upon operator or anhydrotetracycline binding as revealed by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy on single tryptophan mutants

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-48

  Kunz, Michael ^a   Kintrup, Martin ^a   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a   Schneider, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROTETRACYCLINE; PROTEIN; TET REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; KINETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TETRACYCLINES; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 0034237080     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)072<0035:CCIITT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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