Illuminating allostery in metal sensing transcriptional regulators

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 875, Issue , 2012, Pages 165-192

  Grossoehme, Nicholas E ^a   Giedroc, David P ^b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allosteric coupling free energy; Fluorescence anisotropy; Metal sensor protein; Metalloregulation; Metals in biology

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CUPROUS ION; DITHIONITE; DITHIOTHREITOL; GLASS; GLUTATHIONE; LIGAND; METAL; METAL ION; NICKEL; ZINC; DNA; METALLOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA BINDING; IONIC STRENGTH; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPERATURE; TITRIMETRY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; BUFFERS; DNA; METALLOPROTEINS; METALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84865805414     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-806-1_8     Document Type: Article

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