Midterm

PART I

a) What is the cytogenetic position of p53 in the CytogeneticMap?

17p13.1

b) Which chromosome is this gene located ?

chromosome 17

c) What is its LocusID ?

7157

d) What is the percent identity

H. sapiens 100%/392a.a

M. musculus 77%/395a.a

R.norvegicus 77%/392a.a

e) Find a paper that identified p53 as a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein. The authors are in the department of pathology, Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. Give the name of Journal, Vol. #, page # and year.

Science 1991,Jun 21

Vol 252(5013) page1708-11

f) Show the protein sequence of p53. (in fasta format)

g) Find the PDB ID

crystal structure of p53 tetramerization domain :1C26

core domain with DNA:1TSR

PART II

1.asp32 his64 ser33

ser37 his39 asp36

2.molecule surface