A new mechanism for the control of a prokaryotic transcriptional regulator: antagonistic binding of positive and negative effectors
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- 1 February 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 35 (4) , 765-776
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01747.x
Abstract
MalT, the transcriptional activator of the Escherichia coli maltose regulon, self‐associates, binds promoter DNA and activates initiation of transcription only in the presence of ATP and maltotriose,...Keywords
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