Gbp1p, a protein with RNA recognition motifs, binds single-stranded telomeric DNA and changes its binding specificity upon dimerization

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 923-933

  Johnston, Stephen D ^a   Lew, Jodi E ^a   Berman, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DIMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 0032906219     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.1.923     Document Type: Article

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