Chimeras of Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis single-stranded DNA binding proteins: Characterization and function in Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Bharti, Sanjay Kumar ^a   Rex, Kervin ^a   Sreedhar, Pujari ^a   Krishnan, Neeraja ^a   Varshney, Umesh ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CHYMOTRYPSIN; PROTEINASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; TITRIMETRY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHYMOTRYPSIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; KINETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 83155191778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027216     Document Type: Article

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