Prevention of cross-talk in conserved regulatory systems: Identification of specificity determinants in RNA-binding anti-termination proteins of the BglG family

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4360-4372

  Hübner, Sebastian ^a   Declerck, Nathalie ^b   Diethmaier, Christine ^a   Le Coq, Dominique ^c   Aymerich, Stephane ^c   Stülke, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITERMINATION PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BGLG PROTEIN; LICT PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SACT PROTEIN; SACY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTITERMINATOR PROTEINS, BACTERIA; BACTERIAL RNA; LICT PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SACY PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79961176147     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr021     Document Type: Article

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