A Structural-Based Strategy for Recognition of Transcription Factor Binding Sites

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Beisi ^a,b   Schones, Dustin E ^c   Wang, Yongmei ^d   Liang, Haojun ^e   Li, Guohui ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d University of Memphis   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA STRUCTURE; FUNGAL STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DNA, FUNGAL; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POSITION-SPECIFIC SCORING MATRICES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84872189462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052460     Document Type: Article

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