Implications of the zinc-finger motif found in the DNA-binding domain of the human XPA protein

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 437-442

  Morita, Eugene H ^a,d   Ohkubo, Tadayasu ^b,e   Kuraoka, Isao ^b   Shirakawa, Masahiro ^c   Tanaka, Kiyoji ^b   Morikawa, Kosuke ^a  

^a BIOMOL ENG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LIGAND; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM GROUP A PROTEIN; XPA PROTEIN, HUMAN; ZINC; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM GROUP A PROTEIN; ZINC; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0030133842     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1996.d01-252.x     Document Type: Article

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