The Mycobacterial MsDps2 Protein Is a Nucleoid-Forming DNA Binding Protein Regulated by Sigma Factors σA and σB

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Saraswathi, Ramachandran ^a   Pait Chowdhury, Rakhi ^a   Williams, Sunanda Margrett ^a   Ghatak, Payel ^a   Chatterji, Dipankar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DPS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGY; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OSMOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OSMOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77951234325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008017     Document Type: Article

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