IHF and HU: Flexible architects of bent DNA

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-35

  Swinger, Kerren K ^a   Rice, Phoebe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

5 hydroxymethyluracil; AHU; Anabaena HU; Bacillus stearothermophilus; Bacillus subtilis; Base pairs; Bbu; Borrelia burgdorferi; bp; Bst; Bsu; Electrophoretic mobility shift assay; EMSA; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; FRET; hmU; HU

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; HISTONE; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PACKAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SYNCHROTRON; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; TITRIMETRY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ANABAENA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 1342324028     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2003.12.003     Document Type: Review

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