Detecting DNA-binding helix-turn-helix structural motifs using sequence and structure information

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2129-2140

  Pellegrini Calace, Marialuisa ^a   Thornton, Janet M ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA HELIX; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 17844369961     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki349     Document Type: Article

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