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. 1990 Sep 11;18(17):5019–5026. doi: 10.1093/nar/18.17.5019

Improved detection of helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motifs in protein sequences.

I B Dodd 1, J B Egan 1
PMCID: PMC332109  PMID: 2402433

Abstract

We present an update of our method for systematic detection and evaluation of potential helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motifs in protein sequences [Dodd, I. and Egan, J. B. (1987) J. Mol. Biol. 194, 557-564]. The new method is considerably more powerful, detecting approximately 50% more likely helix-turn-helix sequences without an increase in false predictions. This improvement is due almost entirely to the use of a much larger reference set of 91 presumed helix-turn-helix sequences. The scoring matrix derived from this reference set has been calibrated against a large protein sequence database so that the score obtained by a sequence can be used to give a practical estimation of the probability that the sequence is a helix-turn-helix motif.

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