Interconversion between bound and free conformations of LexA orchestrates the bacterial SOS response

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6546-6557

  Butala, Matej ^a   Klose, Daniel ^b   Hodnik, Vesna ^a   Rems, Ana ^a   Podlesek, Zdravko ^a   Klare, Johann P ^b   Anderluh, Gregor ^a   Busby, Stephen J W ^c   Steinhoff, Heinz Jürgen ^b   Žgur Bertok, Darja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; LEXA PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE; ALLOSTERISM; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

EID: 80055096030     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr265     Document Type: Article

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