Interdomain contacts control folding of transcription factor RfaH

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 10077-10085

  Tomar, Sushil Kumar ^a   Knauer, Stefan H ^b   Nandymazumdar, Monali ^a   Rösch, Paul ^b   Artsimovitch, Irina ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RFAH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN REFOLDING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84890367793     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt779     Document Type: Article

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