A 2.2 Å resolution crystal structure of a designed zinc finger protein bound to DNA

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 940-945

  Kim, Chongwoo A ^a   Berg, Jeremy M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; DNA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0029662017     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1196-940     Document Type: Article

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