Structural Basis for Cooperative DNA Binding by CAP and Lac Repressor

Structure

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 123-132

  Balaeff, Alexander ^a,d   Mahadevan, L ^c   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b  

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

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; LAC REPRESSOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA HELIX; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ELASTICITY; ENERGY BALANCE; LACTOSE OPERON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 1642534356     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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