New Roles for Key Residues in Helices H1 and H2 of the Escherichia coli H-NS N-terminal Domain: H-NS Dimer Stabilization and Hha Binding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 359, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 679-689

  García, Jesús ^a   Madrid, Cristina ^b   Juárez, Antonio ^b   Pons, Miquel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

H NS mutagenesis; Hha; nucleoid associated proteins; protein NMR; protein protein interactions

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI HS;

EID: 33646885693     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.03.059     Document Type: Article

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