Sequence dependence of transcription factor-mediated DNA looping

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 7728-7738

  Johnson, Stephanie ^a   Lindén, Martin ^b   Phillips, Rob ^b,c  

^a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics ^*  (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOMECHANICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEOSOME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; LAC REPRESSORS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROBABILITY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84870573112     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks473     Document Type: Article

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