Crystal structure of the RAG1 dimerization domain reveals multiple zinc- binding motifs including a novel zinc binuclear cluster

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 586-591

  Bellon, Steven F ^a   Rodgers, Karla K ^a   Schatz, David G ^b   Coleman, Joseph E ^a   Steitz, Thomas A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; ZINC; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; HYDROGEN BOND; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; ZINC; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0030959658     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0797-586     Document Type: Article

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