Mechanisms of toxin inhibition and transcriptional repression by Escherichia coli DinJ-YafQ

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 20559-20569

  Ruangprasert, Ajchareeya ^a   Maehigashi, Tatsuya ^a   Miles, Stacey J ^a   Giridharan, Nisha ^a   Liu, Julie X ^a   Dunham, Christine M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION;

AUTOREPRESSION; DIRECT INTERACTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INVERTED REPEAT; PROMOTER REGION; RECOGNITION SEQUENCE; STRESS RESPONSE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

BACTERIAL TOXIN; DINJ PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; YAFQ PROTEIN, E COLI;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84905387098     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.573006     Document Type: Article

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