Origins of specificity in protein-DNA recognition

R Rohs, X Jin, SM West, R Joshi… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Specific interactions between proteins and DNA are fundamental to many biological
processes. In this review, we provide a revised view of protein-DNA interactions that …

Multivalent engagement of chromatin modifications by linked binding modules

AJ Ruthenburg, H Li, DJ Patel… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2007 - nature.com
Various chemical modifications on histones and regions of associated DNA play crucial
roles in genome management by binding specific factors that, in turn, serve to alter the …

Verification of protein structures: patterns of nonbonded atomic interactions

C Colovos, TO Yeates - Protein science, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
A novel method for differentiating between correctly and incorrectly determined regions of
protein structures based on characteristic atomic interactions is described. Different types of …

Assessment of protein models with three-dimensional profiles

R Lüthy, JU Bowie, D Eisenberg - Nature, 1992 - nature.com
AS methods for determining protein three-dimensional (3D) structure develop, a continuing
problem is how to verify that the final protein model is correct. The revision of several protein …

Highlights of the DNA cutters: a short history of the restriction enzymes

WAM Loenen, DTF Dryden, EA Raleigh… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In the early 1950's,'host-controlled variation in bacterial viruses' was reported as a
non-hereditary phenomenon: one cycle of viral growth on certain bacterial hosts affected the …

Recent advances in zinc enzymology

WN Lipscomb, N Sträter - Chemical Reviews, 1996 - ACS Publications
Posters and lectures presented at the Seventh International Conference on Bioinorganic
Chemistry (ICBIC) in Lubeck, Germany, last year was divided into 16 sections, including …

Coupling of local folding to site-specific binding of proteins to DNA

RS Spolar, MT Record Jr - Science, 1994 - science.org
Thermodynamic studies have demonstrated the central importance of a large negative heat
capacity change (Δ C° assoc) in site-specific protein-DNA recognition. Dissection of the …

An overview of the structures of protein-DNA complexes

NM Luscombe, SE Austin, HM Berman, JM Thornton - Genome biology, 2000 - Springer
On the basis of a structural analysis of 240 protein-DNA complexes contained in the Protein
Data Bank (PDB), we have classified the DNA-binding proteins involved into eight different …

Hhal methyltransferase flips its target base out of the DNA helix

S Klimasauskas, S Kumar, RJ Roberts, X Cheng - Cell, 1994 - cell.com
The crystal structure has been determined at 2.8 A resolution for a chemically-trapped
covalent reaction intermediate between the Hhal DNA cytosine-lmethyltransferase, S …

Structure and function of type II restriction endonucleases

A Pingoud, A Jeltsch - Nucleic acids research, 2001 - academic.oup.com
More than 3000 type II restriction endonucleases have been discovered. They recognize
short, usually palindromic, sequences of 4–8 bp and, in the presence of Mg2+, cleave the …