A consensus motif in the RFX DNA binding domain and binding domain mutants with altered specificity

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 4486-4494

  Emery, Patrick ^a   Strubin, Michel ^a   Hofmann, Kay ^b   Bucher, Philipp ^b   Mach, Bernard ^a   Reith, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; YEAST CELL;

EID: 0029982706     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.8.4486     Document Type: Article

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