Designer zinc finger proteins: Tools for creating artificial DNA-binding functional proteins

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-52

  Dhanasekaran, Muthu ^a   Negi, Shigeru ^a   Sugiura, Yukio ^a,b  

^a KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (PSJ)   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REVIEW;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 33344464022     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar050158u     Document Type: Review

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