Crystal structure of the yeast MATα2/MCM1/DNA ternary complex

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6668, 1998, Pages 660-666

  Tan, Song ^a   Richmond, Timothy J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; FUNGAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; YEAST;

BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MCM1 PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032509980     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35563     Document Type: Article

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