Mechanism for pH-dependent gene regulation by amino-terminus-mediated homooligomerization of Bacillus subtilis anti-trp RNA-binding attenuation protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 35, 2010, Pages 15385-15390

  Sachleben, Joseph R ^a   McElroy, Craig A ^a   Gollnick, Paul ^b   Foster, Mark P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostery; N formyl methionine; Thermodynamic linkage

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRP RNA BINDING ATTENUATION PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOMERIZATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RNA BINDING;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 77957266145     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004981107     Document Type: Article

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