Structural basis of X chromosome DNA recognition by the MSL2 CXC domain during Drosophila dosage compensation

Genes and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 2652-2662

  Zheng, Sanduo ^a,b   Villa, Raffaella ^c   Wang, Jia ^a,b   Feng, Yingang ^d,e   Wang, Jinfeng ^f   Becker, Peter B ^c   Ye, Keqiong ^b,f  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; DNA protein complex; Dosage compensation; Nonspecific DNA binding

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MSL-2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84914169336     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.250936.114     Document Type: Article

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