An artificial HIV enhancer-binding peptide is dimerized by the addition of a leucine zipper

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 399-403

  Liu, Niankun ^a   Caderas, Georg ^a   Gutte, Bernd ^a   Thomas, Richard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificially designed peptide; Circular dichroism; HIV 1 enhancer binding; Leucine zipper; Sedimentation equilibrium

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DIMERIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FUNGAL PROTEINS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 0030738781     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490050052     Document Type: Article

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