ParG, a protein required for active partition of bacterial plasmids, has a dimeric ribbon-helix-helix structure

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1141-1153

  Golovanov, Alexander P ^a   Barillà, Daniela ^a   Golovanova, Marina ^a   Hayes, Finbarr ^a   Lian, Lu Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN ACTIVATED RECEPTOR G; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0344826584     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03750.x     Document Type: Article

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