Term Information

Accession
GO:1990121
Name
H-NS complex
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
DNA-binding protein H-NS complex, histone-like protein H-NS complex
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A multimer of H-NS proteins that is involved in bacterial nucleoid condensation and negative regulation of global gene expression by directly binding to promoter regions. Recognizes both structural and sequence-specific motifs in double-stranded DNA and has binding preference for bent DNA. Source: GOC:bhm, PMID:12592399
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:1990121 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of H-NS complex (GO:1990121)
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H-NS complex [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  bacterial nucleoid (GO:0043590)
H-NS complex [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  cytosol (GO:0005829)
H-NS complex [is_a relation] is_a  DNA bending complex (GO:1990104)

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