Determinants of bacteriophage 933W repressor DNA binding specificity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Bullwinkle, Tammy J ^a   Samorodnitsky, Daniel ^a   Rosati, Rayna C ^a   Koudelka, Gerald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRESSOR PROTEIN; DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE 933W; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE 933W;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84859246552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034563     Document Type: Article

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