High-affinity DNA binding sites for H-NS provide a molecular basis for selective silencing within proteobacterial genomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 6330-6337

  Lang, Benjamin ^a   Blot, Nicolas ^b   Bouffartigues, Emeline ^c   Buckle, Malcolm ^c   Geertz, Marcel ^b   Gualerzi, Claudio O ^d   Mavathur, Ramesh ^b   Muskhelishvili, Georgi ^b   Pon, Cynthia L ^d   Rimsky, Sylvie ^c   Stella, Stefano ^d   Babu, M Madan ^a   Travers, Andrew ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEOBACTERIA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; OPERON; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 35549009343     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm712     Document Type: Article

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