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Computational and experimental probes of symmetry mismatches in the Arc repressor-DNA complex.
Journal of molecular biology - 2 Jul 2004
Spector Shari, Sauer Robert T, Tidor Bruce
Abstract excerpt
Arc repressor from bacteriophage P22 is a homodimeric member of the ribbon-helix-helix family of transcription factors. Two dimers bind cooperatively to adjacent sites on operator DNA with the antiparallel beta-sheet of each Arc dimer contacting the major groove. Despite the 2-fold symmetry of the dimer, the sequence of the DNA half-site is not symmetric, and thus there is an inherent symmetry mismatch in the...
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