Cooperative binding of DNA and CBFβ to the Runt domain of the CBFα studied via MD simulations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4212-4222

  Habtemariam, Bahru ^a   Anisimov, Victor M ^a   MacKerell Jr , Alexander D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE BINDING FACTOR; CORE BINDING FACTOR BETA; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA SUBUNITS; CORE BINDING FACTORS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 22844438435     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki724     Document Type: Article

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