Acquisition of myogenic specificity through replacement of one amino acid of MASH-1 and introduction of an additional α-helical turn

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 705-710

  Dezan, Christine ^a   Meierhans, Daniel ^a,c   Künne, Andreas G E ^a,d   Allemann, Rudolf K ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BHLH proteins; DNA binding specificity; Myogenesis; Neurogenesis; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOGENIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; FIBROBLAST; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STEM CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032992205     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.088     Document Type: Article

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