Crystal structure of the P2 C-repressor: A binder of non-palindromic direct DNA repeats

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 7778-7790

  Massad, Tariq ^a   Skaar, Karin ^a   Nilsson, Hanna ^a   Damberg, Peter ^a,b   Henriksson Peltola, Petri ^a   Haggård Ljungquist, Elisabeth ^a   Högbom, Martin ^a   Stenmark, Pål ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; PALINDROMIC DNA; PROTEIN C;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE P2; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIMERIZATION; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 78649840375     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq626     Document Type: Article

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