Residue substitutions near the redox center of Bacillus subtilis Spx affect RNA polymerase interaction, redox control, and Spx-DNA contact at a conserved cis-acting element

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 3967-3978

  Lin, Ann A ^a   Walthers, Don ^a   Zuber, Peter ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MUTANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SPX PROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA CROSS LINKING; EPISTASIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883530956     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00645-13     Document Type: Article

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