Structural basis for the cooperative DNA recognition by Smad4 MH1 dimers

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 8213-8222

  Baburajendran, Nithya ^a,b   Jauch, Ralf ^a   Tan, Clara Yueh Zhen ^a   Narasimhan, Kamesh ^a,b   Kolatkar, Prasanna R ^a,b  

^a GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HETERODIMER; HOMODIMER; MAD HOMOLOGY 1 DOMAIN PROTEIN; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; DNA STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DIMERIZATION; DNA; MICE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SMAD PROTEINS, RECEPTOR-REGULATED; SMAD4 PROTEIN;

EID: 80054063198     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr500     Document Type: Article

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