Probing key DNA contacts in AraR-mediated transcriptional repression of the Bacillus subtilis arabinose regulon

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4755-4766

  Franco, Irina Saraiva ^a   Mota, Luís Jaime ^a,d   Soares, Cláudio Manuel ^b   de Sá Nogueira, Isabel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PALINDROMIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ARAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABINOSE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 34547863494     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm509     Document Type: Article

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