Structural insight into operator dre-sites recognition and effector binding in the GntR/HutC transcription regulator NagR

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1283-1296

  Fillenberg, Simon B ^a   Grau, Florian C ^a   Seidel, Gerald ^a   Muller, Yves A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUCOSAMINE 6-PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 6-PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPERATOR GENE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84941123432     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1374     Document Type: Article

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