Oct-1 POU and octamer DNA co-operate to recognise the bob-1 transcription co-activator via induced folding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 941-952

  Chang, Ju Fang ^a   Phillips, Kathryn ^a   Lundbäck, Thomas ^c   Gstaiger, Matthias ^b   Ladbury, John E ^c   Luisi, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bob1; Circular dichroism; Isothermal titration calorimetry; Molecular recognition; Oct 1

Indexed keywords

DNA; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0033591443     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2711     Document Type: Article

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