Intermolecular and intramolecular readout mechanisms in protein-DNA recognition

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 285-294

  Michael Gromiha, M ^a   Siebers, Jörg G ^b   Selvaraj, Samuel ^c   Kono, Hidetoshi ^d   Sarai, Akinori ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Direct and indirect readouts; IHF, integration host factor; PDB, Protein Data Bank; Protein DNA recognition; Specificity; Statistical potential; Structural data; TBP, TATA binding protein

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DATA BASE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1442323773     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.01.033     Document Type: Article

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