Structural mechanism of transcription regulation of the Staphylococcus aureus multidrug efflux operon mepRA by the MarR family repressor MepR

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2774-2788

  Birukou, Ivan ^a   Seo, Susan M ^b   Schindler, Bryan D ^b   Kaatz, Glenn W ^b,c   Brennan, Richard G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; PROLINE; THREONINE;

ALLOSTERISM; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC STABILITY; MEPR GENE; MEPRA GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPRESSOR GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84895836364     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1215     Document Type: Article

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