Oligomeric assemblies of the Escherichia coli MalT transcriptional activator revealed by cryo-electron microscopy and image processing

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 343, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1159-1169

  Larquet, Eric ^a,b   Schreiber, Valérie ^c   Boisset, Nicolas ^b   Richet, Evelyne ^c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

cryo EM; E. coli; multimer; nucleoprotein complex; transcription activator

Indexed keywords

ADENYLYLIMIDODIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; MALTOTRIOSE; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN MALT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOMO;

EID: 6344242971     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.09.010     Document Type: Article

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