Three-stage Regulation of the Amphibolic gal Operon: From Repressosome to GalR-free DNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 358, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 355-363

  Semsey, Szabolcs ^a   Virnik, Konstantin ^a   Adhya, Sankar ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

d galactose metabolism; DNA looping; protein protein interaction; repression; transcription

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; DNA; GALACTOSE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE REPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33646079413     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.02.022     Document Type: Article

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