Structural insights into the U-box, a domain associated with multi-ubiquitination

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 250-255

  Ohi, Melanie D ^a   Vander Kooi, Craig W ^a,b   Rosenberg, Joshua A ^a   Chazin, Walter J ^a,b   Gould, Kathleen L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR SPLICING FACTOR; PROTEIN PRP19P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DRUG STABILITY; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UBIQUITIN;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037389970     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb906     Document Type: Article

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