Structural insight into gene transcriptional regulation and effector binding by the Lrp/AsnC family

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1439-1449

  Thaw, Paul ^a   Sedelnikova, Svetlana E ^a   Muranova, Tatyana ^a   Wiese, Sebastian ^a   Ayora, Sylvia ^b   Alonso, Juan C ^b   Brinkman, Arie B ^c   Akerboom, Jasper ^d   van der Oost, John ^d   Rafferty, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; LEUCINE RESPONSIVE REGULATOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN ASNC; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ASNC PROTEIN, E COLI; ASPARAGINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LIGAND; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA PACKAGING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARAGINE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33645525801     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl009     Document Type: Article

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