The role of intercalating residues in chromosomal high-mobility-group protein DNA binding, bending and specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2852-2864

  Klass, Janet ^a   Murphy IV, Frank V ^a,b   Fouts, Susan ^a   Serenil, Melissa ^a   Changela, Anita ^b   Siple, Jessica ^b   Churchill, Mair E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; GLYCINE; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; LEUCINE; METHIONINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; THREONINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TYROSINE; VALINE; AMINO ACID; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; HYDROGEN BOND; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0037592865     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg389     Document Type: Article

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