hMutSβ, a heterodimer of hMSH2 and hMSH3, binds to insertion/deletion loops in DNA

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1181-1184

  Palombo, Fabio ^a   Iaccarino, Ingram ^a   Nakajima, Eiitsu ^b   Ikejima, Miyoko ^b   Shimada, Takashi ^b   Jiricny, Josef ^a  

^a IRBM   (Italy)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MSH2 PROTEIN, FUNGAL; MSH3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MSH2; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BIOPOLYMERS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0029659046     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)70685-4     Document Type: Article

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