Yeast meiosis-specific protein Hop1 binds to G4 DNA and promotes its formation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1361-1369

  Muniyappa, K ^a,b   Anuradha, S ^a   Byers, Breck ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; HISTONE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HISTONES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; REC A RECOMBINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0033968862     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.4.1361-1369.2000     Document Type: Article

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