Minimalist, alanine-based, helical protein dimers bind to specific DNA sites [2]

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 122, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 5638-5639

  Lajmi, Ajay R ^a   Lovrencic, Michael E ^a   Wallace, Timothy R ^a   Thomlinson, Robyn R ^a   Shin, Jumi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DIMER; DNA; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; UREA;

ALPHA HELIX; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034647207     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja993025a     Document Type: Letter

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