Activity reversal of Tet repressor caused by single amino acid exchanges

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 777-789

  Scholz, Oliver ^a   Henßler, Eva Maria ^a   Bail, Johannes ^a   Schubert, Peter ^b   Bogdanska Urbaniak, Joanna ^a   Sopp, Sabine ^a   Reich, Marco ^a   Wisshak, Stefanie ^a   Köstner, Martin ^a   Bertram, Ralph ^a   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANHYDROTETRACYCLINE; DNA;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DRUG RESISTANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 3843071122     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04159.x     Document Type: Article

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