Crystal structure of an engineered Cro monomer bound nonspecifically to DNA: Possible implications for nonspecific binding by the wild-type protein

Protein Science

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1485-1494

  Albright, Ronald A ^a,b   Mossing, Michael C ^c   Matthews, Brian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Cro; Helix turn helix; Monomer dimer; Protein DNA interaction; repressor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROGEN BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0031873125     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560070701     Document Type: Article

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