Anatomy of specific interactions between λ repressor and operator DNA

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-43

  Oobatake, Motohisa ^a   Kono, Hidetoshi ^a,b   Wang, Yifei ^a,c   Sarai, Akinori ^a,d  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

repressor; Accessible surface area; Gibbs free energy change; Protein DNA interaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LAMBDA REPRESSOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BINDING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HYDRATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; STEREOSPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0042320566     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10438     Document Type: Article

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