GCN4 eukaryotic transcription factor/FokI endonuclease-mediated 'Achilles' heel cleavage': Quantitative study of protein-DNA interaction

Gene

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-8

  Skowron, Piotr M ^a,b,c   Harasimowicz, Renata ^b   Rutkowska, Sylwia M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^c CHIMERx   (United States)

Author keywords

Achilles' heel cleavage; Genome; Methyltransferase; Protein purification; Protein DNA interaction

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASE FOKI; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE FOKI; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; RECOMBINANT DNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SITE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE SPECIFIC); TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; HALF LIFE TIME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN BINDING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE; DNA CLEAVAGE; EUKARYOTE; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HALF-LIFE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029665058     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00857-8     Document Type: Article

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