Nature and mechanism of the in vivo oligomerization of nucleoid protein H-NS

EMBO Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 2896-2905

  Stella, Stefano ^a   Spurio, Roberto ^a   Falconi, Maurizio ^a   Pon, Cynthia L ^a   Gualerzi, Claudio O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Protein dimerization and tetramerization; Transcriptional repression; Two hybrid system

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; MONOMER; TETRAMER;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; GENE DELETION; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 28844463650     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600754     Document Type: Article

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