Both metal binding sites in the homodimer are required for metalloregulation by the CadC repressor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1323-1329

  Sun, Yan ^a   Wong, Marco D ^a   Rosen, Barry P ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CYSTEINE; DIMER; DNA; LEAD; METAL ION; ZINC ION; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CADC PROTEIN, BACTERIA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; ZINC;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CADC GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRESSOR GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WILD TYPE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CADMIUM; CYSTEINE; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEAD; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ZINC;

NEGIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0036015645     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02961.x     Document Type: Article

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