Insights into the architecture and stoichiometry of Escherichia coli PepA·DNA complexes involved in transcriptional control and site-specific DNA recombination by atomic force microscopy

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1463-1476

  Minh, Phu Nguyen Le ^a   Devroede, Neel ^a   Massant, Jan ^a   Maes, Dominique ^a   Charlier, Daniel ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBAMATE KINASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUTAMYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PURR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUTR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE-HYDROLYZING); DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 63249100571     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn1078     Document Type: Article

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