Sequence-specific DNA binding determined by contacts outside the helix-turn-helix motif of the ParB homolog KorB

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 656-663

  Khare, Dheeraj ^a   Ziegelin, Günter ^b   Lanka, Erich ^b   Heinemann, Udo ^a,c  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PALINDROMIC DNA; PROTEIN KORB; PROTEIN PARB; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONJUGATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATOR GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BROAD HOST RANGE PLASMIDS;

EID: 3042642002     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb773     Document Type: Article

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