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Mechanism of Tet repressor induction by tetracyclines: length compensates for sequence in the alpha8-alpha9 loop.
Journal of molecular biology - 27 Jul 2001
Scholz O, Kintrup M, Reich M, Hillen W
Abstract excerpt
Natural Tet repressor (TetR) variants are alpha-helical proteins bearing a large loop between helices 8 and 9, which is variable in sequence and length. We have deleted this loop consisting of 14 amino acid residues in TetR(D) and rebuilt it stepwise with up to 42 alanine residues. All except the mutant with the longest alanine loop show wild-type repression, but none is inducible with tetracycline. This...
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