Autoregulation of the Escherichia coli melR promoter: Repression involves four molecules of MelR

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2667-2676

  Samarasinghe, Shivanthi ^a   El Robh, Mohamed Samir ^a   Grainger, David C ^a   Zhang, Wenke ^b   Soultanas, Panos ^b   Busby, Stephen J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MELR;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BINDING SITES; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMEOSTASIS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 43349100429     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn119     Document Type: Article

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