The HoxB1 hexapeptide is a prefolded domain: Implications for the Pbx 1/Hox interaction

Protein Science

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1244-1253

  Slupsky, Carolyn M ^a   Sykes, David B ^b   Gay, Grant L ^a   Sykes, Brian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; Hox; Inhibitor; NMR; Pbx; Peptide; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HEXAPEPTIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035019657     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.50901     Document Type: Article

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