Structural anatomy of telomere OB proteins

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 409-435

  Horvath, Martin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostery; Intrinsically disordered protein regions; Molecular recognition; NMR; OB fold; Single stranded DNA binding proteins; Telomere structural biology; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; OB PROTEIN; REPLICATION FACTOR A; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL ANATOMY; TELOMERE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; EUKARYOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPLICATION PROTEIN A; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80053464451     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2011.609295     Document Type: Review

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