Identification of activating region (AR) of Escherichia coli LysR-type transcription factor CysB and CysB contact site on RNA polymerase alpha subunit at the cysP promoter

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 791-806

  Lochowska, Anna ^a   Iwanicka Nowicka, Roksana ^a   Zaim, Jolanta ^a   Witkowska Zimny, Malgorzata ^a   Bolewska, Krystyna ^a   Hryniewicz, Monika M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; DNA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CYSB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3843122191     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04161.x     Document Type: Article

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