POTENTIAL METAL-BINDING DOMAINS IN NUCLEIC-ACID BINDING-PROTEINS

被引:1071
作者
BERG, JM
机构
[1] Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States
关键词
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS - Genes - GENETIC ENGINEERING - METALS AND ALLOYS - PROTEINS;
D O I
10.1126/science.2421409
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
A systematic search for sequences that potentially could form metal-binding domains in proteins has been performed. Five classes of proteins involved in nucleic acid binding or gene regulation were found to contain such sequences. These observations suggest numerous experiments aimed at determining whether metal-binding domains are present in these proteins and, if present, what roles such domains play in the processes of nucleic acid binding and gene regulation.
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