A structural approach reveals how neighbouring C2H2 zinc fingers influence DNA binding specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 9147-9157

  Garton, Michael ^a   Najafabadi, Hamed S ^a   Schmitges, Frank W ^a   Radovani, Ernest ^b   Hughes, Timothy R ^a,b   Kim, Philip M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CONFORMATION; MACHINE LEARNING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZINC FINGER MOTIF; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BINDING SITES; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84959450092     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv919     Document Type: Article

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