HU binds and folds single-stranded DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1026-1036

  Kamashev, Dmitri ^a   Balandina, Anna ^a   Mazur, Alexey K ^a   Arimondo, Paola B ^b   Rouviere Yaniv, Josette ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DIMER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BINDING SITES; BUFFERS; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 39449101833     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm667     Document Type: Article

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