Structural basis for the heterodimeric interaction between the acute leukaemia-associated transcription factors AML1 and CBFβ

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 3004-3015

  Warren, Alan J ^a,b   Bravo, Jerónimo ^a   Williams, Roger L ^a   Rabbitts, Terence H ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosomal translocation; Cleidocranial dysplasia; Core binding factor; Mutation; Osteogenesis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 2 SUBUNIT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROSTATICS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034660045     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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