Quantitative DNase footprint titration: A tool for analyzing the energetics of protein-DNA interactions

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 900-914

  Connaghan Jones, Keith D ^a   Moody, Amie D ^a   Bain, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DNA TEMPLATE; DNASE FOOTPRINTING; GENE CONTROL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TITRIMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING;

EID: 43149123786     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.53     Document Type: Article

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