Yeast heat shock transcription factor N-terminal activation domains are unstructured as probed by heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy

Protein Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 262-269

  Cho, Ho S ^a   Liu, Corey W ^a   Damberger, Fred F ^a   Pelton, Jeffrey G ^b   Nelson, Hillary C M ^a,b   Wemmer, David E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

activation domains; dynamics; heat shock factor; NMR; unstructured

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030039788     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560050210     Document Type: Article

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