Quantitative structure-activity analysis correlating Ras/Raf interaction in vitro to Raf activation in vivo

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 244-251

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTO ONCOGENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANYLYL IMIDODIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; RAP GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0029879058     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0396-244     Document Type: Article

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