The strength of acidic activation domains correlates with their affinity for both transcriptional and non-transcriptional protiens

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 301, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1097-1112

  Melcher, Karsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activation domains; GAL4; GCN4; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DISSOCIATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034283159     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.4034     Document Type: Article

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