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Introduction and Overview | p. 1 |
Principles of Sequence-Specific Nucleic-Acid Recognition | p. 4 |
The problem that is set: what is being recognized | p. 5 |
Role of the major groove in DNA recognition | p. 5 |
Role of the nucleic acid bendability | p. 6 |
Role of water molecules in sequence recognition | p. 8 |
Role of the minor groove in DNA and RNA recognition | p. 9 |
DNA-Binding Structure Motifs | p. 10 |
Helix-turn-helix | p. 11 |
Zinc 'fingers' | p. 12 |
Helices of the dinucleotide fold | p. 14 |
Other motifs | p. 14 |
Similarities and Differences in RNA and DNA Recognition | p. 15 |
Sequence-Specific DNA-Binding Proteins | p. 16 |
Repressors and activators | p. 16 |
Lac operon regulation | p. 16 |
E. coli catabolite gene activator protein (CAP) | p. 16 |
E. coli lac repressor protein | p. 23 |
Structural studies of the bacterial phage repressors | p. 28 |
434 Repressor fragment complexed with DNA | p. 30 |
[lambda]cro | p. 36 |
[lambda]cI repressor fragment | p. 37 |
E. coli Trp repressor | p. 40 |
E. coli Met repressor | p. 44 |
Zinc-containing DNA-binding domains (zinc 'fingers') TFIIIA | p. 45 |
Restriction endonuclease - E. Coli EcoR I | p. 46 |
Site-specific recombination [gamma][delta] Resolvase | p. 51 |
Sequence-Independent DNA-Binding Proteins | p. 53 |
Klenow fragment of E. coli DNA polymerase I | p. 53 |
Bovine pancreatic DNase I | p. 55 |
E. coli Hu protein | p. 57 |
Sequence-Specific RNA-Binding Proteins | p. 59 |
E. coli glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase complexed with tRNA[superscript Gln] | p. 59 |
Conclusions and Prospects | p. 64 |
Acknowledgements | p. 65 |
References | p. 65 |
Index | p. 76 |
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