Structural features of the plasmid pMV158-encoded transcriptional repressor CopG, a protein sharing similarities with both helix-turn-helix and β-sheet DNA binding proteins

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 248-261

  Acebo, Paloma ^a   García De Lacoba, Mario ^a   Rivas, Germán ^a   Andreu, José M ^a   Espinosa, Manuel ^a   Del Solar, Gloria ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Copy number control; Homology modeling; Plasmids; Protein comparison; Transcriptional repressors

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HALF-LIFE; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 3543005326     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19980801)32:2<248::AID-PROT11>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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