Light-activated DNA binding in a designed allosteric protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 31, 2008, Pages 10709-10714

  Strickland, Devin ^a   Moffat, Keith ^a   Sosnick, Tobin R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostery; Alpha helix; LOV domain; Protein design; trp repressor

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; PHOTOTROPIN 1; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALLOSTERISM; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; NONHUMAN; OAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALLOSTERIC SITE; AVENA SATIVA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA; FLAVOPROTEINS; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

AVENA SATIVA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 49449118042     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709610105     Document Type: Article

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