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Structural basis for group A trichothiodystrophy.
Nature structural & molecular biology - 1 Sept 2008
Kainov Denis E, Vitorino Marc, Cavarelli Jean, Poterszman Arnaud, Egly Jean-Marc
Abstract excerpt
Patients with the rare neurodevelopmental repair syndrome known as group A trichothiodystrophy (TTD-A) carry mutations in the gene encoding the p8 subunit of the transcription and DNA repair factor TFIIH. Here we describe the crystal structure of a minimal complex between Tfb5, the yeast ortholog of p8, and the C-terminal domain of Tfb2, the yeast p52 subunit of TFIIH. The structure revealed that these two...
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