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Reading the minor groove

The solution structure of the complex of the SRY HMG-domain with DNA provides clues to the mechanism of sequence recognition in the minor groove.

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Travers, A. Reading the minor groove. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2, 615–618 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb0895-615

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