Differences in the mechanism of the allosteric L-rhamnose responses of the AraC/XylS family transcription activators RhaS and RhaR

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 448-461

  Kolin, Ana ^a,b   Balasubramaniam, Vinitha ^a   Skredenske, Jeff M ^a   Wickstrum, Jason R ^a,c   Egan, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; RHAMNOSE; RHAR TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RHAS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING MOTIF; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; RHAMNOSE; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 41049117472     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06164.x     Document Type: Article

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