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A Brief Note On Protein-DNA Interactions

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SOPHIA COLLEGE

Protein-DNA Interaction

MAYUR GAIKWAD

05/05/2015

INTRODUCTION
Protein–DNA interactions play a major role in all fields of genetics from regulation and transcription of individual genes to repair of damaged sequences, even to the stabilization of DNA in chromatin and the replication of entire genomes. It is estimated that 2–3% of prokaryotic and 6–7% of eukaryotic genes code for DNA-binding proteins. Additionally, many of these proteins do not merely bind DNA, but also interact with other proteins and sometimes, as is shown in the example of RNA polymerase, only display theirfull activity when organized in multimeric complexes.

SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC DNA BINDING
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