The Staphylococcus aureus pSK41 plasmid-encoded ArtA protein is a master regulator of plasmid transmission genes and contains a RHH motif used in alternate DNA-binding modes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6970-6983

  Ni, Lisheng ^a   Jensen, Slade O ^b   Ky Tonthat, Nam ^a   Berg, Tracey ^b   Kwong, Stephen M ^b   Guan, Fiona H X ^b   Brown, Melissa H ^c   Skurray, Ronald A ^b   Firth, Neville ^b   Schumacher, Maria A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARTA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARTA PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONJUGATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPERATOR GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 73349109189     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp756     Document Type: Article

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