Control of DNA minor groove width and Fis protein binding by the purine 2-amino group

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 6750-6760

  Hancock, Stephen P ^a   Ghane, Tahereh ^b   Cascio, Duilio ^c   Rohs, Remo ^d,e   Di Felice, Rosa ^b,d   Johnson, Reid C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; ADENINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; GUANINE; INOSINE; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; DNA MINOR GROOVE WIDTH; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHOSPHATE NEUTRALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHATES; PROTEIN BINDING; PURINES;

EID: 84880528662     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt357     Document Type: Article

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