Two mutations in the HMG-box with very different structural consequences provide insights into the nature of binding to four-way junction DNA

EMBO Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 1995, Pages 3844-3853

  Teo, Soo Hwang ^a   Grasser, Klaus D ^a,b   Hardman, Colin H ^a   Broadhurst, R William ^a   Laue, Ernest D ^a   Thomas, Jean O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD; Four way junction; HMG box; NMR spectroscopy; Supercoiling

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029117147     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1995.tb00054.x     Document Type: Article

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