Mechanisms of transcription factor selectivity

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-83

  Pan, Yongping ^a   Tsai, Chung Jung ^a   Ma, Buyong ^a   Nussinov, Ruth ^a,b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 75149141847     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2009.12.003     Document Type: Review

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