Mechanistic insights from the crystal structures of a feast/famine regulatory protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 7324-7335

  Shrivastava, Tripti ^a   Ramachandran, Ravishankar ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; ASPARAGINE DERIVATIVE; LEUCINE; LEUCINE RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; METHIONINE; PHENYLALANINE; THYROXINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; HISTIDINE; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHENYLALANINE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 37549028005     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm850     Document Type: Article

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