Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of Pit-1 POU domain complexed to a 28 base pair DNA element

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 263-265

  Jacobson, Eric M ^a   Li, Peng ^b   Rosenfeld, Michael G ^b   Aggarwal, Aneel K ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

POU domain; transcription factor; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0029868645     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199602)24:2<263::AID-PROT14>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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