Structure of a DNA-bound Ultrabithorax-Extradenticle homeodomain complex

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6721, 1999, Pages 714-719

  Passner, Jonathan M ^a   Ryoo, Hyung Don ^b   Shen, Leyi ^a   Mann, Richard S ^b   Aggarwal, Aneel K ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033602242     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17833     Document Type: Article

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