Repertoire selection of variant single-chain Cro: Toward directed DNA-binding specificity of helix-turn-helix proteins

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 38, 2004, Pages 12038-12047

  Nilsson, Mikael T I ^a   Widersten, Mikael ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BINDING ENERGY; DIMERS; DISSOCIATION; PROTEINS;

CRO DIMERS; DISSOCIATION COSTANTS; LIGANDS; SYNTHETIC DNA;

DNA;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DERIVATIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PHAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TITRIMETRY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

SYNTHETIC CONSTRUCT;

EID: 4644323906     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi049122k     Document Type: Article

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