α-helical linker of an artificial 6-zinc finger peptide contributes to selective DNA binding to a discontinuous recognition sequence

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 29, 2007, Pages 8517-8524

  Yan, Wei ^a   Imanishi, Miki ^a,b   Futaki, Shiroh ^a   Sugiura, Yukio ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING AFFINITY; RECOGNITION SEQUENCES; SALT BRIDGES; ZINC FINGER;

ASSAYS; CHEMICAL SHIFT; DNA SEQUENCES; GELS; SALTS; STABILIZATION;

PEPTIDES;

6 ZINC FINGER PEPTIDE; GLUTAMYLALANYLALANYLALANYLARGININE; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDES; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 34547230730     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi7006417     Document Type: Article

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