Molecular flip-flops formed by overlapping Fis sites

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 6663-6673

  Hengen, Paul N ^b,c   Lyakhov, Ilya G ^b   Stewart, Lisa E ^a,d   Schneider, Thomas D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

^d Alkami Biosystems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0344668834     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg877     Document Type: Article

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