Bpur, the lyme disease spirochete's PUR domain protein: Identification as a transcriptional modulator and characterization of nucleic acid interactions

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 26220-26234

  Jutras, Brandon L ^a   Chenail, Alicia M ^a   Carroll, Dustin W ^a   Miller, M Clarke ^b   Zhu, Haining ^a   Bowman, Amy ^a   Stevenson, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; LYME DISEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS; PROTEIN PRODUCTION; REGULATORY FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSORS;

BIOMOLECULES; PROTEINS;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN BPUR; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING AFFINITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA-BINDING PROTEIN; ERP; GENE REGULATION; PUR DOMAIN; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84883728097     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.491357     Document Type: Article

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