A DNA translocation motif in the bacterial transcription-repair coupling factor, Mfd

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 6409-6418

  Chambers, A L ^a   Smith, A J ^a   Savery, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR; HELICASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUPLING FACTOR; DNA BINDING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0345531143     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg868     Document Type: Article

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