Two Levels of Cooperativeness in the Binding of TodT to the tod Operon Promoter

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 384, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1037-1047

  Lacal, Jesús ^a   Guazzaroni, María Eugenia ^a   Gutiérrez del Arroyo, Paloma ^b,c   Busch, Andreas ^a   Vélez, Marisela ^b   Krell, Tino ^a   Ramos, Juan L ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Pseudomonas; response regulator; sensor kinases; TodT; two component systems

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN TODT; RECOMBINANT DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; THERMODYNAMICS;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 56949087359     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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