The Preferred Substrate for RecA-Mediated Cleavage of Bacteriophage 434 Repressor is the DNA-Bound Dimer

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-7

  Pawlowski, David R ^a   Koudelka, Gerald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DIMER; MONOMER; RECA PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE 434; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; KINETICS; PLASMIDS; REC A RECOMBINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE 434; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0346991734     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.1.1-7.2004     Document Type: Article

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