HU and IHF: similarities and differences. In Escherichia coli, the lack of HU is not compensated for by IHF.

doi:10.1016/0923-2508(91)90036-a

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HU and IHF: similarities and differences. In Escherichia coli, the lack of HU is not compensated for by IHF.

Research in microbiology - 1 Jan 2000

Boubrik F, Bonnefoy E, Rouvière-Yaniv J

Abstract excerpt

HU is one of the most abundant DNA binding proteins in Escherichia coli. Like the histones, HU is able to condense DNA in vitro and to introduce negative super-coiling in covalently closed circular, relaxed DNA molecules in the presence of topoisomerase I. HU is well conserved in all prokaryotes...

Topics

Bacterial Proteins
DNA, Bacterial
DNA-Binding Proteins
Escherichia coli
Integration Host Factors
Mutation
Plasmids
Transformation, Genetic

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