How an Agonist Peptide Mimics the Antibiotic Tetracycline to Induce Tet-Repressor

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 368, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 780-790

  Luckner, Sylvia R ^a   Klotzsche, Marcus ^a   Berens, Christian ^a   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a   Muller, Yves A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

allosteric coupling; bacterial transcription regulation; crystal structure; in vitro selected peptide; protein protein interactions

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34047092739     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.02.030     Document Type: Article

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