Crystal structure of a transcriptional activator of comK gene from Bacillus halodurans

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 409-414

  Qian, Steven Xu ^a   Ankoudinova, Irina ^a   Lou, Yun ^a   Yokota, Hisao ^a   Kim, Rosalind ^a   Kim, Sung Hou ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus halodurans; Berkeley Structural Genomics Center (BSGC); comK; Crystal structure; gi10175511; Med; Structural genomics; Transcriptional activator

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS HALODURANS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACILLUS HALODURANS;

EID: 34548710736     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21292     Document Type: Article

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