The structure of this protein repressor, which is the shortest reported to date and the first isolated from a plasmid, has a homodimeric ribbon-helix-helix arrangement [2]. The helix-turn-helix-like structure is involved in dimerisation and not DNA b ...
The structure of this protein repressor, which is the shortest reported to date and the first isolated from a plasmid, has a homodimeric ribbon-helix-helix arrangement [2]. The helix-turn-helix-like structure is involved in dimerisation and not DNA binding as might have been expected [2].