TALEs from a spring - Superelasticity of Tal effector protein structures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Flechsig, Holger ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR NUCLEASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; XANTHOMONAS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 84908007392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109919     Document Type: Article

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