Combinatorial redesign of the DNA binding specificity of a prokaryotic helix-turn-helix repressor

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 475-481

  Fromknecht, Katja ^a,b   Vogel, Pia D ^a   Wise, John G ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b MWG Biotech AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN VARIANT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIOPHAGE 434; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; PROKARYOTA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0037226673     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.2.475-481.2003     Document Type: Article

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