%0 Journal Article
%T Zinc fingers: DNA binding and protein-protein interactions
%A OSCAR LEON
%A MONICA ROTH
%J Biological Research
%D 2000
%I Sociedad de Biolog¨Şa de Chile
%X The zinc finger domain is a very ubiquitous structural element whose hallmark is the coordination of a zinc atom by several amino acid residues (cysteines and histidines, and occasionally aspartate and glutamate). These structural elements are associated with protein-nucleic acid recognition as well as protein-protein interactions. The purpose of this review is to examine recent data on the DNA and protein binding properties of a few zinc fingers whose three dimensional structure is known
%K Zinc fingers
%K DNA binding
%K protein-protein interactions
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602000000100009