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p53 DNA binding can be modulated by factors that alter the conformational equilibrium.
The EMBO journal - 1 Feb 1999
McLure K G, Lee P W
Abstract excerpt
The p53 tumor suppressor protein is a dimer of dimers that binds its consensus DNA sequence (containing two half-sites) as a pair of clamps. We show here that after one wild-type dimer of a tetramer binds to a half-site on the DNA, the other (unbound) dimer can be in either the wild-type or the mutant conformation. An equilibrium state between these two conformations exists and can be modulated by two types of...
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