Reversible photocontrol of DNA binding by a designed GCN4-bZIP protein

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6075-6084

  Woolley, G Andrew ^a   Jaikaran, Anna S I ^a   Berezovski, Maxim ^b   Calarco, Joseph P ^a   Krylov, Sergey N ^b   Smart, Oliver S ^c   Kumita, Janet R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CHROMOPHORES; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULES; PROTEINS;

CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS; PHOTOCONTROL; PHOTOISOMERIC STATES; PROTEIN-DNA COMPLEX; TRANSITION STATES;

DNA;

AZOBENZENE; CYSTEINE; PROTEIN GCN4 BZIP; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GCN4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DISSOCIATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ISOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33646557708     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi060142r     Document Type: Article

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