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The zinc coordination site of the bacteriophage Mu translational activator protein, Com.
Journal of molecular biology - 7 Apr 1995
Witkowski R T, Hattman S, Newman L, Clark K, Tierney D L, Penner-Hahn J, McLendon G
Abstract excerpt
The bacteriophage Mu Com protein is a small "zinc finger-like" protein that binds a specific site in com-mom operon mRNA and activates translation of the mom open-reading-frame. Com contains six cysteine and five histidine residues that have the potential to form several alternative zinc-finger-like motifs. We have used oligonucleotide site-directed mutagenesis to individually alter each of these amino acids (Cys...
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