The Y39A mutation of HK022 Nun disrupts a boxB interaction but preserves termination activity

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 7335-7341

  Burmann, Björn M ^a   Uc Mass, Augusto ^b   Schweimer, Kristian ^a   Gottesman, Max E ^b   Rösch, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DISSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW INTERACTIONS; HEALTH; ORGANIC ACIDS; RNA;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); ANTITERMINATION; AROMATIC AMINO ACIDS; AROMATIC RINGS; COLIPHAGE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANTS; IN-VIVO; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA POLYMERASE (RNAP); STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATIONS; SUPER-INFECTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; WILD-TYPE (WT);

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

BACTERIAL RNA; NUN PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BOXB GENE; COLIPHAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE HK022; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 47249096275     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi8004347     Document Type: Article

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