Functional consequences of exchanging domains between LacI and PurR are mediated by the intervening linker sequence

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 375-388

  Tungtur, Sudheer ^a   Egan, Susan M ^b   Swint Kruse, Liskin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostery; DNA binding; Domain linker; LacI GalR; Lactose repressor protein; Purine repressor protein; Specificity determinants; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN LACI; PROTEIN PURR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34249891364     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21412     Document Type: Article

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