Specificity of protein-DNA recognition revealed by structure-based potentials: Symmetric/asymmetric and cognate/non-cognate binding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 322, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 907-915

  Selvaraj, Samuel ^a   Kono, Hidetoshi ^b   Sarai, Akinori ^a  

^a RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric binding; Protein DNA complex; Structure based potential

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036412071     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00846-X     Document Type: Article

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