Structural Mechanism of Transcriptional Autorepression of the Escherichia coli RelB/RelE Antitoxin/Toxin Module

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 380, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 107-119

  Li, Guang Yao ^a   Zhang, Yonglong ^b   Inouye, Masayori ^b   Ikura, Mitsuhiko ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

antitoxin; cooperative binding; RelB; RHH; transcriptional repressor

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DIMER; PALINDROMIC DNA; PROTEIN RELE; TETRAMER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELB;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 44649143795     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.04.039     Document Type: Article

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