Article
Operator search by mutant Lac repressors.
Journal of molecular biology - 8 May 1998
Barker A, Fickert R, Oehler S, Müller-hill B
Abstract excerpt
The Escherichia coli Lac and Gal repressors are two members of a large family of bacterial repressor proteins that share significant sequence and structural homology. Efficient repression by all family members requires specific binding to a site or sites close to the transcriptional start of the...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacteriophage lambda
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- DNA, Bacterial
- Dimerization
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Galactose
- Genotype
- Kinetics
- Lac Repressors
- Macromolecular Substances
- Models, Molecular
- Operon
- Plasmids
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Repressor Proteins