Engineered Single-Chain, Antiparallel, Coiled Coil Mimics the MerR Metal Binding Site

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1861-1868

  Song, Lingyun ^a   Caguiat, Jonathan ^a,b   Li, Zhongrui ^a   Shokes, Jacob ^a   Scott, Robert A ^a   Olliff, Lynda ^a   Summers, Anne O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NT Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; LEAD; MERCURY; MERCURY 203; MERR PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN MBD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MER OPERON; MERR GENE; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MERCURY; METALS, HEAVY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1542317099     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.6.1861-1868.2004     Document Type: Article

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