Switching DNA-binding specificity by unnatural amino acid substitution

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 5896-5903

  Maiti, Atanu ^a   Roy, Siddhartha ^b  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; AMIDE; AMINE; ASPARAGINE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; LYSINE; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA REPRESSOR PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; S (2 HYDROXYETHYL)CYSTEINE; S-(2-HYDROXYETHYL)CYSTEINE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEN BOND; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRESSOR GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYSTEINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HYDROGEN BONDING; LYSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 27144558367     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki899     Document Type: Article

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