From "simple" DNA-protein interactions to the macromolecular machines of gene expression

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 36, Issue , 2007, Pages 79-105

  Von Hippel, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding and assembly of proteins and DNA; Macromolecular complexes; Protein nucleic acid interactions; Replication; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYELECTROLYTE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; COVALENT BOND; DIFFUSION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENERGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34347235771     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.34.040204.144521     Document Type: Review

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