The structural basis of the activation of Ras by Sos

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6691, 1998, Pages 337-343

  Boriack Sjodin, P Ann ^a   Margarit, S Mariana ^b   Bar Sagi, Dafna ^b   Kuriyan, John ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; RAS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASE-LINKED ELONGATION FACTORS; GUANINE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAS PROTEINS; SON OF SEVENLESS PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0032560850     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28548     Document Type: Article

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