Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic study of the Ras- GTPase-activating domain of human p120GAP

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 315-318

  Scheffzek, Klaus ^a   Lautwein, Alfred ^a   Scherer, Anna ^b   Franken, Sybille ^b   Wittinghofer, Alfred ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

catalytic domain; cross linking; hanging drop; p21; seeding

Indexed keywords

GROWTH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HUMANS; PROTEINS; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031042009     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199702)27:2<315::AID-PROT17>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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