Influence of induced fit in the interaction of Bacillus subtilis trp RNA-binding attenuator protein and its RNA antiterminator target oligomer

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 432-438

  Flynn, Peter F ^a   Wendt, Alice ^b   Gollnick, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical shift perturbation analysis; Protein RNA interactions; Transcription regulation; trp operon; Tryptophan biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; APOPROTEINS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRYPTOPHAN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0036891667     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10243     Document Type: Article

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