The glucocorticoid receptor dimer interface allosterically transmits sequence-specific DNA signals

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 876-883

  Watson, Lisa C ^a,b   Kuchenbecker, Kristopher M ^a,b   Schiller, Benjamin J ^a,b   Gross, John D ^a   Pufall, Miles A ^b,c   Yamamoto, Keith R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; DNA; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENES, REPORTER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

RATTUS;

EID: 84880174882     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2595     Document Type: Article

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