How proteins recognize the TATA box

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 239-254

  Juo, Zong Sean ^a,b   Chiu, Thang Kien ^a   Leiberman, Paul M ^a,c   Baikalov, Igor ^a   Berk, Arnold J ^a   Dickerson, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

A tract bending; DNA bending; DNA sequence recognition; TATA box; TATA binding proteins

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TATA BOX;

ARABIDOPSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030590260     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0456     Document Type: Article

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