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SUBMITTER: Sanchez IE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2867883 | biostudies-other | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Sánchez Ignacio E IE Ferreiro Diego U DU Dellarole Mariano M de Prat-Gay Gonzalo G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100407 17
Protein recognition of DNA sites is a primary event for gene function. Its ultimate mechanistic understanding requires an integrated structural, dynamic, kinetic, and thermodynamic dissection that is currently limited considering the hundreds of structures of protein-DNA complexes available. We describe a protein-DNA-binding pathway in which an initial, diffuse, transition state ensemble with some nonnative contacts is followed by formation of extensive nonnative interactions that drive the syst ...[more]