Probing the informational and regulatory plasticity of a transcription factor DNA-binding domain

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Shultzaberger, Ryan K ^a   Maerkl, Sebastian J ^b   Kirsch, Jack F ^a   Eisen, Michael B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MARA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MARA PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859241581     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002614     Document Type: Article

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