Structural studies of E73 from a hyperthermophilic archaeal virus identify the "rH3" domain, an elaborated ribbon-helix-helix motif involved in DNA recognition

Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 2899-2910

  Schlenker, Casey ^a   Goel, Anupam ^a   Tripet, Brian P ^a   Menon, Smita ^a,b   Willi, Taylor ^a   Dlakić, Mensur ^a   Young, Mark J ^a   Lawrence, C Martin ^a   Copié, Valérie ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL; BOND VECTORS; DNA BINDING; DNA RECOGNITION; DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA (DS-DNA); GENETIC DIVERSITY; HIGH THERMAL STABILITY; HOMODIMERIC PROTEINS; HOMODIMERS; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC; IN-VITRO; PICOSECONDS; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; RIGID CORE; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; TIME-SCALES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION; VIRAL LIFE CYCLE;

AMIDES; DNA; GENES; VIRUSES;

PROTEINS;

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN E73; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARCHAEAL VIRUS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEON; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SULFOLOBUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARCHAEAL VIRUSES; DIMERIZATION; DNA, VIRAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR;

ARCHAEA; SUGARCANE STREAK VIRUS; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS SPINDLE-SHAPED VIRUS 1;

EID: 84859408778     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi201791s     Document Type: Article

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