How do site-specific DNA-binding proteins find their targets?

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3040-3052

  Halford, Stephen E ^b   Marko, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CALCULATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; DISSOCIATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM;

DIFFUSION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 3042579602     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh624     Document Type: Review

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