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Determinants of affinity and activity of the anti-sigma factor AsiA.
Biochemistry - 27 Jul 2010
Gilmore Joshua M, Bieber Urbauer Ramona J, Minakhin Leonid, Akoyev Vladimir, Zolkiewski Michal, Severinov Konstantin, Urbauer Jeffrey L
Abstract excerpt
The AsiA protein is a T4 bacteriophage early gene product that regulates transcription of host and viral genes. Monomeric AsiA binds tightly to the sigma(70) subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase, thereby inhibiting transcription from bacterial promoters and phage early promoters and coactivating transcription from phage middle promoters. Results of structural studies have identified amino acids at the...
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