DNA looping-dependent autorepression of LEE1 P1 promoters by Ler in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 25, 2014, Pages

  Bhat, Abhayprasad ^a   Shin, Minsang ^a,b   Jeong, Jae Ho ^a   Kim, Hyun Ju ^a   Lim, Hyung Ju ^a   Rhee, Joon Haeng ^a   Paik, Soon Young ^c   Takeyasu, Kunio ^b   Tobe, Toru ^d   Yen, Hilo ^d   Lee, Gwangrog ^e   Choy, Hyon E ^a  

^a Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

DNA bending; First phosphodiester bond formation; Road block transcript

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; LOCUS OF ENTEROCYTE EFFACEMENT P1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN LER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOTINYLATION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA LOOPING; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

DNA-BENDING; FIRST PHOSPHODIESTER BOND FORMATION; ROAD BLOCK TRANSCRIPT;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC LOCI; OPERON; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84903453921     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1322033111     Document Type: Article

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