The Escherichia coli toxin MqsR destabilizes the transcriptional repression complex formed between the antitoxin MqsA and the mqsRA operon promoter

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1286-1294

  Brown, Breann L ^a   Lord, Dana M ^a   Grigorius, Simina ^b   Peti, Wolfgang ^a,c   Pages, Rebecca ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL BIOFILM; BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES; COMPLEX FORMATIONS; COOPERATIVITY; COREPRESSORS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA BINDING; PERSISTER CELLS; PERSISTERS; TOXIN ACTIVITY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION; UNIQUE FEATURES; UP-REGULATION;

DISSOCIATION; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; METABOLITES; TOXIC MATERIALS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENDOTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; MQSA ANTITOXIN; MQSR TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOPHYSICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MQSA GENE; MQSR GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA DEGRADATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84872361771     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.421008     Document Type: Article

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