Neisseria gonorrhoeae FitA interacts with FitB to bind DNA through its ribbon-helix-helix motif

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 37, 2005, Pages 12515-12524

  Wilbur, J Scott ^a   Chivers, Peter T ^c   Mattison, Kirsten ^b   Potter, Laura ^a   Brennan, Richard G ^b   So, Magdalene ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CELLS; DIMERS; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FOOTPRINT ASSAYS; PROTEIN ENCODING;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN FITA; PROTEIN FITB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DNA HELIX; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SCREENING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 24944525711     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0511080     Document Type: Article

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