A flexible binding site architecture provides new insights into CcpA global regulation in gram-positive bacteria

mBio

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Yang, Yunpeng ^a,b   Zhang, Lu ^a,b   Huang, He ^a   Yang, Chen ^a   Yang, Sheng ^a,c   Gu, Yang ^a,d   Jiang, Weihong ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials   (China)

^d SHANGHAI COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION CENTER FOR BIOMANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEINS, BACTERIA; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTERVENING SPACER; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PALINDROMIC SEQUENCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 85014874316     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02004-16     Document Type: Article

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