Crystal structure of the conserved core of the herpes simplex virus transcriptional regulatory protein VP16

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1692-1703

  Liu, Yu ^a,d   Gong, Weimin ^a,b,e   Huang, C Chris ^a,c,f   Herr, Winship ^a   Cheng, Xiaodong ^a,b  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; DNA recognition; HSV; Protein VP16

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL PROTEIN; DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRION;

DNA VIRUSES; HERPES; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 0033166256     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.13.1692     Document Type: Article

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