Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis of Anti-TRAP (AT) Reveals Residues Involved in Binding to TRAP

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 377, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1529-1543

  Chen, Yanling ^a   Gollnick, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

gene regulation; protein oligomerization; protein protein interactions; RNA binding protein; transcription attenuation

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN RNA BINDING ATTENUATION PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN RNA BINDING ATTENUATION PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM; UPREGULATION;

POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 40849126491     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.02.015     Document Type: Article

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