Transcription activation at the Escherichia coli melAB promoter: Interactions of MelR with the C-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase α subunit

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1311-1320

  Grainger, David C ^a   Belyaeva, Tamara A ^a   Lee, David J ^a   Hyde, Eva I ^a   Busby, Stephen J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NUCLEASE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MELR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1342342820     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2003.03930.x     Document Type: Article

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