The origin of protein interactions and allostery in colocalization

J Kuriyan, D Eisenberg - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Two fundamental principles can account for how regulated networks of interacting proteins
originated in cells. These are the law of mass action, which holds that the binding of one …

What drives proteins into the major or minor grooves of DNA?

PL Privalov, AI Dragan, C Crane-Robinson… - Journal of molecular …, 2007 - Elsevier
The energetic profiles of a significant number of protein–DNA systems at 20° C reveal that,
despite comparable Gibbs free energies, association with the major groove is primarily an …

HESX1 Mutations Are an Uncommon Cause of Septooptic Dysplasia and Hypopituitarism

DEG McNay, JP Turton, D Kelberman… - The Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Context: Mutations in the transcription factor HESX1 have previously been described in
association with septooptic dysplasia (SOD) as well as isolated defects of the hypothalamic …

BNP is a transcriptional target of the short stature homeobox gene SHOX

A Marchini, B Häcker, T Marttila, V Hesse… - Human molecular …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Short stature due to SHOX deficiency represents a common congenital form of growth failure
and is involved in the aetiology of 'idiopathic'short stature and the growth deficits and …

Connecting protein structure with predictions of regulatory sites

AV Morozov, ED Siggia - Proceedings of the National …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
A common task posed by microarray experiments is to infer the binding site preferences for a
known transcription factor from a collection of genes that it regulates and to ascertain …

SHOX at a glance: from gene to protein

A Marchini, G Rappold… - Archives of physiology and …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Short Stature Homeobox-containing Gene SHOX was identified as the genetic
cause of the short stature phenotype in patients with Turner Syndrome and in certain …

The MH1 domain of Smad3 interacts with Pax6 and represses autoregulation of the Pax6 P1 promoter

T Grocott, V Frost, M Maillard, T Johansen… - Nucleic acids …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Pax6 transcription is under the control of two main promoters (P0 and P1), and these are
autoregulated by Pax6. Additionally, Pax6 expression is under the control of the TGFβ …

Structural Basis for Induced Fit Mechanisms in DNA Recognition by the Pdx1 Homeodomain,

A Longo, GP Guanga, RB Rose - Biochemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
Pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1 (Pdx1) is a homeodomain transcription factor
belonging to the ParaHox family. Pdx1 plays an essential role in pancreatic endocrine and …

PAX3 and PAX3-FKHR promote rhabdomyosarcoma cell survival through downregulation of PTEN

HG Li, Q Wang, HM Li, S Kumar, C Parker, M Slevin… - Cancer letters, 2007 - Elsevier
PAX3 or PAX3-FKHR expression is implicated in cell transformation and tumourigenesis.
Here, C2C12 myoblasts were transfected with a sense Pax3 vector and a pTet-On system to …

Cooperative interactions between the two DNA binding domains of Pax3: helix 2 of the paired domain is in the proximity of the amino terminus of the homeodomain

S Apuzzo, P Gros - Biochemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
Pax3 is a transcription factor that plays an important role during neurogenesis and
myogenesis, and Pax3 mutant animals display neural tube defects and lack limb muscles …