Elucidating residue roles in engineered variants of AraC regulatory protein

Protein Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 291-298

  Tang, Shuang Yan ^a   Cirino, Patrick C ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

AraC; Effector specificity; Ligand binding; Molecular recognition; Regulatory switch; Repression

Indexed keywords

ARAC PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARABINOSE; ARAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 76749158086     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.310     Document Type: Article

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