Completing the view of transcriptional regulation

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5682, 2004, Pages 350-352

  Von Hippel, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LACI PROTEIN, BACTERIA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA BINDING; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; LACTOSE OPERON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DIFFUSION; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NOTE; OPERATOR GENE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DIFFUSION; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROSTATICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; LAC OPERON; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 3142723254     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101270     Document Type: Review

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