Ras/Rap effector specificity determined by charge reversal

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 723-729

  Nassar, Nicolas ^a   Horn, Gudrun ^a   Herrmann, Christian ^a   Block, Christoph ^a   Janknecht, Ralf ^b   Wittinghofer, Alfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RABBIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENES, REPORTER; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; RABBITS; RAP GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0029745645     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0896-723     Document Type: Article

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