DNA supercoiling: A regulatory signal for the λ repressor

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

Volumn 111, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 15402-15407

  Ding, Yue ^a   Manzo, Carlo ^a,d   Fulcrand, Geraldine ^b   Leng, Fenfei ^b   Dunlap, David ^c   Finzi, Laura ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage repressor; DNA looping; DNA supercoiling; Magnetic tweezer; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; LAC REPRESSOR; OLIGOMER; PLASMID DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; DNA SUPERCOILING; PHAGE REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DENSITY; DNA LOOPING; DNA SUPERCOILING; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; LYSOGENIZATION; MECHANICAL TORSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OPERATOR GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; SUPERHELICAL DENSITY; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DIFFUSION; METABOLISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASE PAIRING; DIFFUSION; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ELASTICITY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRAL REGULATORY AND ACCESSORY PROTEINS;

EID: 84908432236     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320644111     Document Type: Article

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