Unrestraining genetic processes with a protein-DNA hinge

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 759-764

  Tomonaga, Takeshi ^a,c   Michelotti, Gregory A ^a   Libutti, Daniel ^a   Uy, Angelique ^a   Sauer, Brian ^b   Levens, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GAL VP16; GAL-VP16; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; INTEGRASE; MYC PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TATA BOX;

DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; TATA BOX; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0032038453     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80075-1     Document Type: Article

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