Dissection of recognition determinants of Escherichia coliσ 32 suggests a composite -10 region with an 'extended -10' motif and a core -10 element

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 815-829

  Koo, Byoung Mo ^a   Rhodius, Virgil A ^a   Campbell, Elizabeth A ^b   Gross, Carol A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; SIGMA 32 OPIATE RECEPTOR; SIGMA OPIATE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; TETRA;

EID: 65549151736     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06690.x     Document Type: Article

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