FIS (protein)

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FIS is a nucleoid-associated protein in E. coli. It is highly expressed from fis gene from the end of the stationary phase till the mid-exponential phase. It is a DNA binding protein. It affects the topology and supercoiling of E. coli chromosome, and it regulates the expression of many other genes.

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Travers, A.; Schneider, R.; Muskhelishvil, G. DNA supercoiling and transcription in Escherichia coli: The FIS connection. Biochimie, 2001.