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SUBMITTER: Giesecke AV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1681485 | biostudies-literature | 2006
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Giesecke Astrid V AV Fang Rui R Joung J Keith JK
Molecular systems biology 20060321
Cys2His2 zinc-fingers (C2H2 ZFs) mediate a wide variety of protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions. DNA-binding C2H2 ZFs can be shuffled to yield artificial proteins with different DNA binding specificities. Here we demonstrate that shuffling of C2H2 ZFs from transcription factor dimerization zinc-finger (DZF) domains can also yield two-finger DZFs with novel protein-protein interaction specificities. We show that these synthetic protein-protein interaction domains can be used to mediate ac ...[more]