Zinc fingers: DNA binding and protein-protein interactions

The zinc finger domain is a very ubiquitous structural element whose hallmark is the coordination of a zinc atom by several amino acid residues (cysteines and histidines, and occasionally aspartate and glutamate). These structural elements are associated with protein-nucleic acid recognition as well...

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Main Authors: OSCAR LEON, MONICA ROTH
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2000-01-01
Series:Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602000000100009