RP4 Repressor Protein KorB Binds to the Major Groove of the Operator DNA: A Raman Study

Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 49, 2003, Pages 14476-14482

  Dostál, Lubomír ^a   Khare, Dheeraj ^b   Bok, Jiří ^c   Heinemann, Udo ^b,d   Lanka, Erich ^e   Welfle, Heinz ^a,f  

^a AG Biopolymerspektroskopie   (Germany)

^b Max D Ctr Molec Med Berlin Buch   (Germany)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^f MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHEMICAL BONDS; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

PALINDROMIC BINDING SEQUENCES;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; KORB PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PALINDROMIC DNA; PARB PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RP4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING ASSAY; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIMERIZATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TRYPTOPHAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0346220018     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi034723h     Document Type: Article

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