Molecular insight into the activity of LasR protein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the regulation of virulence gene expression by this organism

Gene

Volumn 580, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 80-87

  Chowdhury, Nilkanta ^a   Bagchi, Angshuman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

Author keywords

Binding interactions; DNA protein interactions; LasR; Molecular docking simulations; Molecular Modeling; Protein ligand binding

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER; LASR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LASR PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; BINDING SITE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84957436327     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.12.067     Document Type: Article

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