Why does binding of proteins to DNA or proteins to proteins not necessarily spell function?

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-272

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

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; DNA; GENOMIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ALLOSTERISM; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; STEADY STATE;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ANIMALS; DNA; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 77949853850     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb900293a     Document Type: Review

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