Identification of Ligands Affecting the Activity of the Transcriptional Repressor CcpN from Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 380, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-30

  Licht, Andreas ^a   Golbik, Ralph ^b   Brantl, Sabine ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon catabolite repression; CcpN; CD spectroscopy; in vitro transcription; transcriptional repressor

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; GENE PRODUCT; LIGAND; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN GAPB; PROTEIN PCKA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOASSAY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 44649111763     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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