Ligand-responsive transcriptional regulation by members of the MarR family of winged helix proteins

Current Issues in Molecular Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-62

  Wilkinson, Steven P ^a   Grove, Anne ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; VIRULENCE FACTOR; WINGED HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATABOLISM; DNA BINDING; DRUG RESPONSE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 31344443334     PISSN: 14673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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