Mutants in position 69 of the Trp repressor of Escherichia coli K12 with altered DNA-binding specificity

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 338-346

  Günes, Çagatay ^a,b   Muller Hill B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Consensus trp operator; Helix turn helix motif; Protein DNA interaction; Trp repressor

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; GUANINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; THYMINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THYMINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 1842830238     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050174     Document Type: Article

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