A HEX-1 crystal lattice required for Woronin body function in Neurospora crassa

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 264-270

  Yuan, Ping ^a   Jedd, Gregory ^b   Kumaran, Desigan ^c   Swaminathan, Subramanyam ^c   Shio, Helen ^b   Hewitt, David ^d   Chua, Nam Hai ^b   Swaminathan, Kunchithapadam ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Harvard University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FUNGAL PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 5A; PROTEIN HEX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL DAMAGE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELF5A GENE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROFILAMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PEROXISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WORONIN BODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROSTATICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; INCLUSION BODIES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ASCOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHOCIDAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037388850     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb910     Document Type: Article

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