Molecular determinants of the hpa regulatory system of Escherichia coli: The HpaR repressor

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 6598-6609

  Galán, Beatriz ^c   Kolb, Annie ^a   Sanz, Jesús M ^b   García, José Luis ^c   Prieto, María A ^c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 4 HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; DIMER; PALINDROMIC DNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, INTERGENIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHENYLACETATES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0345531110     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg851     Document Type: Article

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