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Other names published for MATALPHA: MAT

MATALPHA - Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions (29)

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Hart B, et al.  (2002) Engineered improvements in DNA-binding function of the MATa1 homeodomain reveal structural changes involved in combinatorial control. J Mol Biol 316(2):247-56
Sun K, et al.  (2002) Saccharomyces forkhead protein Fkh1 regulates donor preference during mating-type switching through the recombination enhancer. Genes Dev 16(16):2085-96
Jin Y, et al.  (1999) The yeast a1 and alpha2 homeodomain proteins do not contribute equally to heterodimeric DNA binding. Mol Cell Biol 19(1):585-93
Stark MR, et al.  (1999) A trans-acting peptide activates the yeast a1 repressor by raising its DNA-binding affinity. EMBO J 18(6):1621-9
Zhong H, et al.  (1999) Identification of target sites of the alpha2-Mcm1 repressor complex in the yeast genome. Genome Res 9(11):1040-7
Li T, et al.  (1998) Crystal structure of the MATa1/MATalpha2 homeodomain heterodimer in complex with DNA containing an A-tract. Nucleic Acids Res 26(24):5707-18
Tan S and Richmond TJ  (1998) Crystal structure of the yeast MATalpha2/MCM1/DNA ternary complex. Nature 391(6668):660-6
Weiss K and Simpson RT  (1998) High-resolution structural analysis of chromatin at specific loci: Saccharomyces cerevisiae silent mating type locus HMLalpha. Mol Cell Biol 18(9):5392-403
Jin Y, et al.  (1997) Ho endonuclease cleaves MAT DNA in vitro by an inefficient stoichiometric reaction mechanism. J Biol Chem 272(11):7352-9
Komachi K and Johnson AD  (1997) Residues in the WD repeats of Tup1 required for interaction with alpha2. Mol Cell Biol 17(10):6023-8
Szeto L and Broach JR  (1997) Role of alpha2 protein in donor locus selection during mating type interconversion. Mol Cell Biol 17(2):751-9
Wang R, et al.  (1997) Identification of a protein that binds to the Ho endonuclease recognition sequence at the yeast mating type locus. Mol Cell Biol 17(2):770-7
Zhong H and Vershon AK  (1997) The yeast homeodomain protein MATalpha2 shows extended DNA binding specificity in complex with Mcm1. J Biol Chem 272(13):8402-9
Mead J, et al.  (1996) The yeast alpha2 and Mcm1 proteins interact through a region similar to a motif found in homeodomain proteins of higher eukaryotes. Mol Cell Biol 16(5):2135-43
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Smith DL, et al.  (1995) DNA bending by the a1 and alpha 2 homeodomain proteins from yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 23(7):1239-43
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Phillips CL, et al.  (1994) Heterodimerization of the yeast homeodomain transcriptional regulators alpha 2 and a1 induces an interfacial helix in alpha 2. Biochemistry 33(31):9294-302
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Goutte C and Johnson AD  (1993) Yeast a1 and alpha 2 homeodomain proteins form a DNA-binding activity with properties distinct from those of either protein. J Mol Biol 233(3):359-71
Murphy MR, et al.  (1993) DNA-protein interactions at the S.cerevisiae alpha 2 operator in vivo. Nucleic Acids Res 21(14):3295-300
Vershon AK and Johnson AD  (1993) A short, disordered protein region mediates interactions between the homeodomain of the yeast alpha 2 protein and the MCM1 protein. Cell 72(1):105-12
Smith DL and Johnson AD  (1992) A molecular mechanism for combinatorial control in yeast: MCM1 protein sets the spacing and orientation of the homeodomains of an alpha 2 dimer. Cell 68(1):133-42
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