Direct substitution and assisted dissociation pathways for turning off transcription by a MerR-family metalloregulator

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15121-15126

  Joshi, Chandra P ^a   Panda, Debashis ^a,b   Martella, Danya J ^a   Andoy, NeshaMay ^a   Chen, Tai Yen ^a   Gaballa, Ahmed ^a   Helmann, John D ^a   Chen, Peng ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Protein DNA interaction dynamics; Single molecule imaging

Indexed keywords

COPPER EFFLUX REGULATOR PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MERR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IONS; KINETICS; METALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84866556895     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208508109     Document Type: Article

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