Publication Date:
1985-12-20
Description:
Crystals have been grown that contain the operator-binding domain of the lambda repressor and the lambda operator site OL1. Crystallization conditions were tested with a set of DNA fragments, ranging in length from 17 to 23 base pairs. The best crystals were grown with a 20-base pair DNA fragment. These crystals have space-group symmetry P2I, with unit cell dimensions a = 37.1 A, b = 68.8 A, c = 56.8 A, and a beta angle of 91.5 degrees. They diffracted to at least 2.5 A resolution. High resolution data from these crystals should allow the direct determination of how a repressor recognizes its operator site.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jordan, S R -- Whitcombe, T V -- Berg, J M -- Pabo, C O -- GM 31471/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1985 Dec 20;230(4732):1383-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3906896" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Sequence
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Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
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Crystallization
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DNA, Bacterial/*genetics
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Escherichia coli/genetics
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*Gene Expression Regulation
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Protein Conformation
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Repressor Proteins/*genetics/isolation & purification
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Structure-Activity Relationship
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Transcription Factors/*genetics
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X-Ray Diffraction
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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