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SUBMITTER: Tapias A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC102501 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tapias A A López G G Ayora S S
Nucleic acids research 20000101 2
Genetic evidence suggests that the Bacillus subtilis lrpC gene product participates in cell growth and sporulation. The purified LrpC protein, which has a predicted molecular mass of 16.4 kDa, is a tetramer in solution. LrpC binds with higher affinity ( K (app) approximately 80 nM) to intrinsically curved DNA than to non-curved DNA ( K (app) approximately 700 nM). DNase I footprinting and the supercoiling of relaxed circular plasmid DNA in the presence of topoisomerase I revealed that LrpC induc ...[more]