The extended arms of DNA-binding domains: a tale of tails

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 547-552

  Crane Robinson, Colyn ^a,b   Dragan, Anatoly I ^a   Privalov, Peter L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LYSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; ELECTRICITY; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX DOMAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33749014926     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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