Structure of a new DNA-binding domain which regulates pathogenesis in a wide variety of fungi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 29, 2014, Pages 10404-10410

  Lohse, Matthew B ^a   Rosenberg, Oren S ^a   Cox, Jeffery S ^a   Stroud, Robert M ^a   Finer Moore, Janet S ^a   Johnson, Alexander D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Fungal pathogenesis; Protein DNA interaction; Transcription factor; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WOPR DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGUS; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN-DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84904703758     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1410110111     Document Type: Article

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