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Transcriptional Repressor CopR: use of SELEX to study the copR operator indicates that evolution was directed at maximal binding affinity.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 2004
Freede Peggy, Brantl Sabine
Abstract excerpt
CopR is one of the two copy number control elements of the streptococcal plasmid pIP501. It represses transcription of the repR mRNA encoding the essential replication initiator protein about 10- to 20-fold by binding to its operator region upstream of the repR promoter pII. CopR binds at two consecutive sites in the major groove of the DNA that share the consensus motif 5'-CGTG. Previously, the minimal operator...
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