A new use for the 'wing' of the 'winged' helix-turn-helix motif in the HSF-DNA cocrystal

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 464-470

  Littlefield, Otis ^a,b   Nelson, Hillary C M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS;

EID: 0032936785     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/8269     Document Type: Article

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