Looking into DNA recognition: Zinc finger binding specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 6673-6682

  Paillard, Guillaume ^a   Deremble, Cyril ^a   Lavery, Richard ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; DNA BASE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CALCULATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TATA BOX; THEORY;

AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GC RICH SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; TATA BOX; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 13544274449     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh1003     Document Type: Article

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