New perceptions of transcription factor properties from NMR

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 368-378

  Bagby, Stefan ^a   Arrowsmith, Cheryl H ^a   Ikura, Mitsuhiko ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conformational fluctuations; Induced folding; Protein DNA interaction; Protein protein interaction; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WATER;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032468814     PISSN: 08298211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/o98-064     Document Type: Review

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