Structural Basis for Dimerization in DNA Recognition by Gal4

Structure

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1019-1026

  Hong, Manqing ^a   Fitzgerald, Mary X ^a   Harper, Sandy ^a   Luo, Cheng ^a   Speicher, David W ^a   Marmorstein, Ronen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA

Indexed keywords

GAL11 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 46049113874     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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