RelB and RelE of Escherichia coli Form a Tight Complex That Represses Transcription via the Ribbon-Helix-Helix Motif in RelB

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 394, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-196

  Overgaard, Martin ^a   Borch, Jonas ^a   Gerdes, Kenn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antitoxin; RelB; RelE; ribbon helix helix; toxin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOICHIOMETRY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 70350552019     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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