Crystal structure of the DNA binding domain of the heat shock transcription factor

Science

Volumn 263, Issue 5144, 1994, Pages 224-227

  Harrison, Celia J ^a   Bohm, A Andrew ^b   Nelson, Hillary C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0027958045     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.8284672     Document Type: Article

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58. We thank A. de Vos for help, advice, and time on the FAST at Genentech; D. King for advice on purification and for electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry; R. Standeart for advice on selenomethionine incorporation; R. Stevens, J. Somoza, and T. Earnest for help and advice on crystallography; D. Heinz and S. Burley for sending us preprints of their manuscripts; and all of the members of the Nelson laboratory. This work was partially supported by NIH grant GM44086 (H.C.M.N.) and an award from the Pew Scholars Program in Biomedical Sciences (H.C.M.N.). Instrumentation was funded in part by funds provided from the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust through the Berkeley campus Program in Biomolecular Structure and Design. C.J.H. was supported in part by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and by U.S. Public Health Service predoctoral training grant GM08295. A.A.B. was supported by the director, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health Effects, of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC03-76SF00098.