Transcription activation at the Escherichia coli melAB promoter: Interactions of MelR with its DNA target site and with domain 4 of the RNA polymerase σ subunit

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1297-1309

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MELR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALANINE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 1542616357     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2003.03929.x     Document Type: Article

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