The pneumococcal MgaSpn virulence transcriptional regulator generates multimeric complexes on linear double-stranded DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 6975-6991

  Solano Collado, Virtu ^a   Lurz, Rudi ^b   Espinosa, Manuel ^a   Bravo, Alicia ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN MGASPN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INTERACTION; MGASPN GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84881539240     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt445     Document Type: Article

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