Structure of Pit-1 POU domain bound to DNA as a dimer: Unexpected arrangement and flexibility

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 198-212

  Jacobson, Eric M ^a   Li, Peng ^b   Leon Del Rio, Alfonso ^b   Rosenfeld, Michael G ^b   Aggarwal, Aneel K ^a,c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; dimerization; orientation; Pit 1; POU domain factors; spacing

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031057121     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.2.198     Document Type: Article

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