Low-resolution structures of thyroid hormone receptor dimers and tetramers in solution

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1273-1283

  Figueira, Ana Carolina Migliorini ^a   Neto, Mario De Oliveira ^a   Bernardes, Amanda ^a   Dias, Sandra Martha Gomes ^b   Craievich, Aldo F ^a   Baxter, John D ^c   Webb, Paul ^c   Polikarpov, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; DNA; HORMONES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OLIGOMERS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

LOW-RESOLUTION X-RAY STRUCTURES; TETRAMERS; THYROID HORMONE (TH) RECEPTOR (TR);

DIMERS;

DIMER; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; TETRAMER; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING MOTIF; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ALLOSTERIC SITE; APOPROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; SOLUTIONS; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 33846794812     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi061698h     Document Type: Article

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