DNA bending by charged peptides: Electrophoretic and spectroscopic analyses

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2306-2316

  McDonald, Robert J ^a,b   Dragan, Anatoly I ^c   Kirk, William R ^b   Neff, Kevin L ^b   Privalov, Peter L ^c   Maher III, L James ^b  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; BINDING ENERGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENERGY TRANSFER; PEPTIDES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

DNA BENDING; ELECTROPHORETIC PHASING; ELECTROSTATIC MECHANISM; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER (FRET);

DNA;

CURVED DNA; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA HELIX; DNA PROBE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33847628327     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi061921a     Document Type: Article

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