Quantitative analyses of RAG-RSS interactions and conformations revealed by atomic force microscopy

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 43, 2008, Pages 11204-11211

  Pavlicek, Jeffrey W ^a   Lyubchenko, Yuri L ^b   Chang, Yung ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); BINDING SITES; CONFORMATIONS; DNA; ELECTRIC SPARK GAPS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GENES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

ATOMIC FORCES; BEND ANGLES; BENDING; BENDING ANGLES; DNA BENDING; DNA CLEAVAGES; GREAT-ER; QUANTITATIVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENTS; RECOMBINATION SIGNAL SEQUENCES; SIGNAL COMPLEXES; SITE SPECIFICS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

CURVED DNA; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VDJ RECOMBINASES;

EID: 54849423896     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801426x     Document Type: Article

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