Tuning the relative affinities for activating and repressing operators of a temporally regulated restriction-modification system

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 983-998

  Mruk, Iwona ^a,b   Blumenthal, Robert M ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN C; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAGCTG SPECIFIC TYPE II DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; CAGCTG-SPECIFIC TYPE II DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASE PVUII; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SITE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE SPECIFIC); TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; RNA TRANSLATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 63349086121     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn1010     Document Type: Article

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