A role for the interdomain linker region of the Escherichia coli CytR regulator in repression complex formation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 342, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-7

  Kallipolitis, Birgitte H ^a   Valentin Hansen, Poul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

alanine scanning mutagenesis; cAMP receptor protein; CRP, cAMP receptor protein; CytR repressor; HMK, heart muscle kinase; HTH, helix turn helix; protein footprinting; transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; CYTR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 4143061459     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.05.067     Document Type: Article

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