Designing transcription factor architectures for drug discovery

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1361-1371

  Blancafort, Pilar ^a   Segal, David J ^b   Barbas III, Carlos F ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYTAMOXIFEN; ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; PONASTERONE A; RAPAMYCIN DERIVATIVE; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG STRUCTURE; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; PHAGE DISPLAY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 9444230573     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.104.002758     Document Type: Short Survey

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