Transcription-Factor-Mediated DNA Looping Probed by High-Resolution, Single-Molecule Imaging in Live E. coli Cells

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Hensel, Zach ^a,b   Weng, Xiaoli ^a   Lagda, Arvin Cesar ^a   Xiao, Jie ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LAMBDA REPRESSOR PROTEIN CI; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CONFORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA LOOPING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL REGULATORY AND ACCESSORY PROTEINS;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84879335479     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001591     Document Type: Article

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