Sequences flanking the core-binding site modulate glucocorticoid receptor structure and activity

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Schöne, Stefanie ^a   Jurk, Marcel ^a   Helabad, Mahdi Bagherpoor ^b   Dror, Iris ^c,f   Lebars, Isabelle ^d   Kieffer, Bruno ^d   Imhof, Petra ^b   Rohs, Remo ^c   Vingron, Martin ^a   Thomas Chollier, Morgane ^e   Meijsing, Sebastiaan H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HOMODIMER; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHEMICAL BINDING; COMPLEXITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTATION; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; SHAPE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA; HUMANS; PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84984914915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12621     Document Type: Article

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