The Arabidopsis SUPERMAN protein is able to specifically bind DNA through its single Cys2-His2 zinc finger motif

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 4945-4951

  Dathan, Nina ^c   Zaccaro, Laura ^c   Esposito, Sabrina ^a   Insernia, Carla ^a   Omichinski, James G ^b   Riccio, Andrea ^a   Pedone, Carlo ^b   Di Blasio, Benedetto ^a   Fattorusso, Roberto ^a   Pedone, Paolo V ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLYCINE; GUANINE; HISTIDINE; LYSINE; PROTEIN SUP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0012487168     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf613     Document Type: Review

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