P53-DNA Recognition

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A Base Pairing Variant Enhances p53 Binding to a Response ElementA Base Pairing Variant Enhances p53 Binding to a Response Element

[[Image:p53-intro.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Figure 1: Crystal structure of a p53 DBD tetramer-DNA complex; PDB ID# 3KZ8 .

AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements

This Proteopedia page originates from the partnership of the Rohs Laboratory at the University of Southern California with La Canada High School. This partnership was initiated by Remo Rohs and Patty Compeau in September 2011 as Bioinformatics Institute, which is part of the Institutes of the 21st Century. Contributors to this page are USC graduate students Ana Carolina Dantas Machado, Proteopedia editor Eran Hodis, and La Canada High School students xxx. Research presented in this article has been conducted in the Shakked Lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Rohs and L. Chen Labs at USC, and the Honig Lab at Columbia University. Furthermore, technical help by Proteopedia editors Eran Hodis, Eric Martz, Jaime Prilusky, and Joel Sussman is acknowledged.