Zinc fingers - Folds for many occasions

IUBMB Life

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 351-355

  Matthews, Jacqueline M ^a   Sunde, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Domain; Function; Interaction; Structure; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DNA; HISTIDINE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN KINASE C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RING; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEUS; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; ZINC; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0036931270     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15216540216035     Document Type: Review

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