Binding Polymorphism in the DNA Bound State of the Pdx1 Homeodomain

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Babin, Volodymyr ^a,b   Wang, Dongli ^a   Rose, Robert B ^a   Sagui, Celeste ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; BIOINFORMATICS; CONFORMATIONS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BINDING MOTIF; BOUND-STATES; CRYSTAL PACKINGS; DNA BASIS; DNA-BINDING; DNA-BINDING SPECIFICITY; DNA-PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN; N-TERMINALS; PROTEIN RECOGNITION;

DNA;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84883411381     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003160     Document Type: Article

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