Characterization of the single stranded dna binding protein ssbb encoded in the gonoccocal genetic island

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Jain, Samta ^a,d   Zweig, Maria ^d   Peeters, Eveline ^b   Siewering, Katja ^d   Hackett, Kathleen T ^c   Dillard, Joseph P ^c   van der Does, Chris ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; MAGNESIUM ION; PROTEIN SSBB; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MAGNESIUM; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ISLAND; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MAGNESIUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 84859826005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035285     Document Type: Article

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