Clostridium difficile TcdC protein binds four-stranded G-quadruplex structures

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2382-2393

  Van Leeuwen, Hans C ^a   Bakker, Dennis ^a   Steindel, Philip ^b   Kuijper, Ed J ^a   Corver, Jeroen ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN TCDC; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; G-QUADRUPLEXES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 84876360815     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1448     Document Type: Article

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