Structure-function studies of DNA binding domain of response regulator KdpE reveals equal affinity interactions at DNA half-sites

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Narayanan, Anoop ^a   Paul, Lake N ^b   Tomar, Sakshi ^a,c   Patil, Dipak N ^c   Kumar, Pravindra ^c   Yernool, Dinesh A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KDPE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; KDPE PROTEIN, E COLI; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOPHYSICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HELIX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; X RAY ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84856082967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030102     Document Type: Article

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