Amino acid contacts between sigma 70 domain 4 and the transcription activators RhaS and RhaR

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 6277-6285

  Wickstrum, Jason R ^a   Egan, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; PROTEIN RHAT; RHAMNOSE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR RHAR; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR RHAS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENE; GENETIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; RHABAD GENE; RHAR GENE; RHAS GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4444255499     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.18.6277-6285.2004     Document Type: Article

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