Novel insights from hybrid LacI/GalR proteins: Family-wide functional attributes and biologically significant variation in transcription repression

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 11139-11154

  Meinhardt, Sarah ^a   Manley, Michael W ^a   Becker, Nicole A ^b   Hessman, Jacob A ^a   Maher, L James ^b   Swint Kruse, Liskin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN GALR; PROTEIN LACL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84870607623     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks806     Document Type: Article

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