Engineered Tet repressors with recognition specificity for the tetO-4C5G operator variant

Gene

Volumn 404, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 93-100

  Krueger, Marcus ^a   Scholz, Oliver ^a   Wisshak, Stefanie ^a   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity reversal; DNA recognition; Helix turn helix; Inducer specificity; Operator specificity; Single chain TetR

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA HELIX; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; OPERATOR GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DIMERIZATION; DNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 35248894483     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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