A comprehensive alanine scanning mutagenesis of the Escherichia coli transcriptional activator SoxS: identifying amino acids important for DNA binding and transcription activation.

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SoxS is the direct transcriptional activator of the superoxide regulon. SoxS recognizes a highly degenerate "soxbox" DNA sequence, and activates transcription from class I and class II promoters. SoxS is the smallest member of the AraC/XylS family of transcription regulators whose hallmark is dual helix-turn-helix (HTH) DNA-binding motifs. Evidence suggests that the N-terminal HTH motif of SoxS interacts with a...

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