Dimer-dimer stacking interactions are important for nucleic acid binding by the archaeal chromatin protein Alba

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 427, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-55

  Jelinska, Clare ^a,b   Petrovic Stojanovska, Biljana ^a   Ingledew, W John ^a   White, Malcolm F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alba; Archaea; ESR; NMR; Site directed spin labelling

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; CHROMATIN PROTEINS; DIMER INTERFACE; DIMER-DIMER INTERACTION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICAL PROTEINS; IN-VITRO; INTERFACE RESIDUES; POLYPEPTIDE BACKBONES; PULSED ESR; SINGLE-STRANDED DNA; SPIN LABELLING; STACKING INTERACTION;

COMPLEXATION; DNA; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGOMERS; RNA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPIN DYNAMICS;

PROTEINS;

ALBA PROTEIN; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PHENYLALANINE; POLYPEPTIDE; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SSO10B PROTEIN, SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; SPIN LABELING; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ARCHAEA;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 77950878510     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20091841     Document Type: Article

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