Secondary structure and DNA binding by the C-terminal domain of the transcriptional activator NifA from Klebsiella pneumoniae

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3972-3980

  Ray, Pampa ^a,b,c   Smith, K John ^a   Parslow, Rosemary A ^a   Dixon, Ray ^b   Hyde, Eva I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HOLOENZYME; PROTEIN NIFA; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENHANCER REGION; IN VITRO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REGULATOR GENE; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037106322     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf528     Document Type: Article

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