On the origin of the selectivity of plasmidic H-NS towards horizontally acquired DNA: Linking H-NS oligomerization and cooperative DNA binding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 425, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2347-2358

  Fernández De Alba, Carles ^a,b   Berrow, Nicholas S ^b   Garcia Castellanos, Raquel ^b   García, Jesús ^b   Pons, Miquel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

Author keywords

allosteric interactions; EMSA; indirect DNA readout; NMR; xenogeneic DNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOMERIZATION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 84879114910     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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