Solution structure of an Arabidopsis WRKY DNA binding domain

Plant Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 944-956

  Yamasaki, Kazuhiko ^a,b   Kigawa, Takanori ^b   Inoue, Makoto ^b   Tateno, Masaru ^a,c   Yamasaki, Tomoko ^a   Yabuki, Takashi ^b   Aoki, Masaaki ^b   Seki, Eiko ^b   Matsuda, Takayoshi ^b   Tomo, Yasuko ^b   Hayami, Nobuhiro ^b   Terada, Takaho ^b,d   Shirouzu, Mikako ^b,d   Tanaka, Akiko ^b   Seki, Motoaki ^b,e   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^b,e,f   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^b,d,g  

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

^b RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROPHOBICITY; PROTEINS; ZINC;

ARABIDOPSIS WRKY DNA BINDING DOMAIN; C-TERMINAL WRKY DOMAIN; SALICYLIC ACID; WRKYGQK RESIDUES;

DNA;

NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; WATER REPELLENCE; ZINC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROSTATICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLUTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 20444383033     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.026435     Document Type: Article

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