Titins in C. elegans with unusual features: Coiled-coil domains, novel regulation of kinase activity and two new possible elastic regions

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 323, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 533-549

  Flaherty, Denise B ^a   Gernert, Kim M ^b   Shmeleva, Nataliya ^c   Tang, Xuexin ^a   Mercer, Kristina B ^a   Borodovsky, Mark ^c   Benian, Guy M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Ig superfamily; Muscle; Repeating motifs; Titin

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; ISOPROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ELASTICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE FIBRIL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SARCOMERE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036406568     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00970-1     Document Type: Article

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