Crystal structure of GerE, the ultimate transcriptional regulator of spore formation in Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 306, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 759-771

  Ducros, Valérie M A ^a   Lewis, Richard J ^a   Verma, Chandra S ^a   Dodson, Eleanor J ^a   Leonard, Gordon ^b   Turkenburg, Johan P ^a   Murshudov, Garib N ^a   Wilkinson, Anthony J ^a   Brannigan, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Bacillus; GerE; Sporulation; Transcription factor; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPORE GERMINATION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 0035793714     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4443     Document Type: Article

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