Mutational analysis of the multiple-antibiotic resistance regulator marR reveals a ligand binding pocket at the interface between the dimerization and DNA binding domains

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3341-3351

  Duval, Valérie ^a   McMurry, Laura M ^a   Foster, Kimberly ^a   Head, James F ^b   Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROPHENOL; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; REGULATOR MARR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SALICYLATE SODIUM; SALICYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIGAND BINDING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

2,4-DINITROPHENOL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BINDING SITES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SODIUM SALICYLATE;

EID: 84880648468     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02224-12     Document Type: Article

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