Essential residues in the H-NS binding site of Hha, a co-regulator of horizontally acquired genes in Enterobacteria

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1765-1770

  Alba, Carles Fernández De ^a,b   Solórzano, Carla ^b   Paytubi, Sonia ^b   Madrid, Cristina ^b   Juarez, Antonio ^b,c   García, Jesús ^a   Pons, Miquel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

H NS; Hha; Nucleoid associated protein; Transcription repression

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOID ASSOCIATED PROTEIN H NS; NUCLEOID ASSOCIATED PROTEIN HHA; PROTEIN D48; PROTEIN E25; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

EID: 79958152810     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.05.024     Document Type: Article

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