Flexibility in repression and cooperativity by KorB of broad host range IncP-1 plasmid RK2

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 302-316

  Bingle, Lewis E H ^a   Macartney, Donia P ^a   Fantozzi, Anaïs ^a   Manzoor, Susan E ^a   Thomas, Christopher M ^a   Karn, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

DNA looping; DNA silencing; Plasmid maintenance; Plasmid transfer; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KORB; PROTEIN TRBA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA HELIX; GENE REPRESSION; PLASMID; PLASMID RK2; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPLICON; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 18844377820     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.03.062     Document Type: Article

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