Quantitation of putative activator-target affinities predicts transcriptional activating potentials

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 3951-3963

  Wu, Yibing ^a   Reece, Richard J ^a,b   Ptashne, Mark ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affinities; Surface plasmon resonance; TBP; TFIIB; Transcriptional activators

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

EID: 0029739903     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00769.x     Document Type: Article

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