Minor groove DNA-protein contacts upstream of a tRNA gene detected with a synthetic DNA binding ligand

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 286, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 973-981

  McBryant, Steven J ^a   Baird, Eldon E ^b   Trauger, John W ^b   Dervan, Peter B ^b   Gottesfeld, Joel M ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b California Inst of Technol ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

pol III; Pyrrole imidazole polyamides; TBP; TFIIIB; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMIDAZOLE; POLYAMIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PYRROLE; SYNTHETIC DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033525806     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2539     Document Type: Article

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