Insights into kinetochore-DNA interactions from the structure of Cep3Δ

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-62

  Purvis, Alan ^a   Singleton, Martin R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN CEP3; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE CENTROMERIC DNA BINDING FACTOR 3; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROSTATICS; KINETOCHORES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 37849049322     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7401139     Document Type: Article

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