Architecture of Fis-activated transcription complexes at the Escherichia coli rrnB P1 and rrnE P1 promoters

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 316, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 501-516

  Aiyar, Sarah E ^a   McLeod, Sarah M ^b   Ross, Wilma ^a   Hirvonen, Christine A ^a   Thomas, Mark S ^c   Johnson, Reid C ^b   Gourse, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fis; RNA polymerase; rRNA promoters; Transcription activation; subunit

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; DIMER; DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RRNB P1 GENE; RRNE P1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036305955     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5390     Document Type: Article

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