DNA recognition site analysis of Xenopus wingedhelix proteins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 248, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 239-254

  Kaufmann, Eckhard ^a   Muöller, Dorothee ^a   Knoöchel, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Footprint; Fork head; Target sites; Transcription factors; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029023801     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(95)80047-6     Document Type: Article

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