A comprehensive alanine scanning mutagenesis of the Escherichia coli transcriptional activator SoxS: Identifying amino acids important for DNA binding and transcription activation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 322, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 237-257

  Griffith, Kevin L ^a   Wolf Jr, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alanine scan; Gene regulation; Helix turn helix; Positive control; Soxbox

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARABINOSIDE; DNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MARA; PROTEIN ROB; PROTEIN XYLS; RECOGNITION ELEMENT 2; RNA POLYMERASE; SUGAR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOXS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036385497     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00782-9     Document Type: Article

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