Functional Specificity of a Hox Protein Mediated by the Recognition of Minor Groove Structure

Cell

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 530-543

  Joshi, Rohit ^a   Passner, Jonathan M ^b   Rohs, Remo ^a   Jain, Rinku ^b   Sosinsky, Alona ^a   Crickmore, Michael A ^a   Jacob, Vinitha ^b   Aggarwal, Aneel K ^b   Honig, Barry ^a   Mann, Richard S ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; DNA; PROTEINS

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EXTRADENTICLE PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 35548931586     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2007.09.024     Document Type: Article

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