Crystal Structure of the Arginine Repressor Protein in Complex with the DNA Operator from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 384, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1330-1340

  Cherney, Leonid T ^a   Cherney, Maia M ^a   Garen, Craig R ^a   Lu, George J ^a   James, Michael N G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

arginine repressor protein; ArgR operator complex; DNA binding; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 56949100533     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.10.015     Document Type: Article

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