The role of the conserved phenylalanine in the σ54 -interacting GAFTGA motif of bacterial enhancer binding proteins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5981-5992

  Zhang, Nan ^a   Joly, Nicolas ^a   Burrows, Patricia C ^a   Jovanovic, Milija ^a   Wigneshweraraj, Siva R ^a   Buck, Martin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; PHENYLALANINE; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA PROBE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PHENYLALANINE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 70350642059     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp658     Document Type: Article

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