Stimuli-responsive selection of target DNA sequences by synthetic bZIP peptides

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mosquera, Jesús ^a   Jiménez Balsa, Adrián ^a   Dodero, Verónica I ^a   Vázquez, M Eugenio ^a   Mascareñas, Josél L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DIMER; DISULFIDE; MONOMER;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 84878677820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2825     Document Type: Article

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