Crystal structures of the BlaI repressor from Staphylococcus aureus and its complex with DNA: Insights into transcriptional regulation of the bla and mec operons

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1833-1844

  Safo, Martin K ^a   Zhao, Qixun ^b   Ko, Tzu Ping ^c   Musayev, Faik N ^a   Robinson, Howard ^d   Scarsdale, Neel ^a   Wang, Andrew H J ^c   Archer, Gordon L ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; BLA GENE; BLAI GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; MEC GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 14244256059     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.5.1833-1844.2005     Document Type: Article

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