A synthetic peptide mimic of λ-Cro shows sequence-specific binding in vitro and in vivo

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1084-1094

  Mazumder, Abhishek ^a   Maiti, Atanu ^a   Roy, Koushik ^a   Roy, Siddhartha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 2 METHYLPROPIONIC ACID; CRO PROTEIN; CROB 1 PEPTIDE; CROB 2 PEPTIDE; CROB 3 PEPTIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MONOMER; PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REPORTER GENE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE PAIRING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PEPTIDES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL REGULATORY AND ACCESSORY PROTEINS;

EID: 84862508919     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb200523n     Document Type: Article

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