The mitochondrial transcription factor TFAM coordinates the assembly of multiple DNA molecules into nucleoid-like structures

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3225-3236

  Kaufman, Brett A ^a   Durisic, Nela ^b   Mativetsky, Jeffrey M ^b   Costantino, Santiago ^a,b   Hancock, Mark A ^b   Grutter, Peter ^b   Shoubridge, Eric A ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; HOMODIMER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHROMATIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA PACKAGING; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENOME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; KINETICS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34548495323     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E07-05-0404     Document Type: Article

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