Tetramer opening in LacI-mediated DNA looping

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 39, 2009, Pages 16627-16632

  Rutkauskas, Danielis ^a   Zhan, Hongli ^b   Matthews, Kathleen S ^b   Pavone, Francesco S ^a,c   Vanzi, Francesco ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Lactose repressor

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN LAD; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING;

BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; LAC REPRESSORS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 70349748589     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904617106     Document Type: Article

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