Full-length RAG1 promotes contact with coding and intersignal sequences in RAG protein complexes bound to recombination signals paired in cis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2211-2226

  Kumar, Sushil ^a   Swanson, Patrick C ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAG1 PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HMGB1 PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; METHYLATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

SYNAPSIS;

EID: 65549118829     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp047     Document Type: Article

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