Use of urea and glycine betaine to quantify coupled folding and probe the burial of DNA phosphates in Lac repressor-Lac operator binding

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 51, 2005, Pages 16896-16911

  Hong, Jiang ^a   Capp, Mike W ^a   Saecker, Ruth M ^a   Record Jr , M Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATES; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PROTEINS; THERMOANALYSIS; UREA;

Α-HELICAL PEPTIDES; GLYCINE BETAINE; THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; UREA-BIOPOLYMER INTERACTIONS;

DNA;

AMIDE; BETAINE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; DNA; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UREA;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LACTOSE OPERON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SOLUTE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; AMIDES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAINE; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAC OPERON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; UREA; WATER;

EID: 29344437812     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0515218     Document Type: Article

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