Dynamics and stoichiometry of a regulated enhancer-binding protein in live Escherichia coli cells

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mehta, Parul ^a   Jovanovic, Goran ^a   Lenn, Tchern ^a,d   Bruckbauer, Andreas ^b   Engl, Christoph ^a,e   Ying, Liming ^c   Buck, Martin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; PHAGE SHOCK PROTEIN A; PHAGE SHOCK PROTEIN F; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL BINDING; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOMICS; PROTEIN; STOICHIOMETRY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84879645709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2997     Document Type: Article

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