Structures of carbon catabolite protein A-(HPr-Ser46-P) bound to diverse catabolite response element sites reveal the basis for high-affinity binding to degenerate DNA operators

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2931-2942

  Schumacher, Maria A ^a   Sprehe, Mareen ^a   Bartholomae, Maike ^b   Hillen, Wolfgang ^b   Brennan, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; CRE RECOMBINASE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA BINDING; DNA HELIX; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 79954607096     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1177     Document Type: Article

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