An asymmetric NFAT1 dimer on a pseudo-palindromic κB-like DNA site

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 807-811

  Jin, Lei ^a   Sliz, Piotr ^a   Chen, Lin ^a,c   Macián, Fernando ^b,d   Rao, Anjana ^b   Hogan, Patrick G ^b   Harrison, Stephen C ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PALINDROMIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0141507041     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb975     Document Type: Article

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