The activity of CouR, a MarR family transcriptional regulator, is modulated through a novel molecular mechanism

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 595-607

  Otani, Hiroshi ^a   Stogios, Peter J ^b   Xu, Xiaohui ^b   Nocek, Boguslaw ^c   Li, Shu Nan ^a   Savchenko, Alexei ^b   Eltis, Lindsay D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; COENZYME A; COUR PROTEIN; PARA COUMAROYL COA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4-COUMARIC ACID; 4-COUMAROYL-COENZYME A; ACYL COENZYME A; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COUMARIC ACID; DNA; LIGAND; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOPHYSICS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; GEL SHIFT ASSAY; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RHODOCOCCUS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ACYL COENZYME A; ALANINE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; COENZYME A; COUMARIC ACIDS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHODOCOCCUS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84966356240     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv955     Document Type: Article

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