Structure of p53 binding to the BAX response element reveals DNA unwinding and compression to accommodate base-pair insertion

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 8368-8376

  Chen, Yongheng ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaojun ^a   Dantas Machado, Ana Carolina ^a   Ding, Yuan ^a   Chen, Zhuchu ^b   Qin, Peter Z ^a,c   Rohs, Remo ^a,c,d   Chen, Lin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN P53; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BAX GENE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA COMPRESSION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE PAIRING; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BINDING SITES; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 84884964169     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt584     Document Type: Article

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