Structure and function of Nurr1 identifies a class of ligand-independent nuclear receptors

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6939, 2003, Pages 555-560

  Wang, Zhulun ^a   Benoit, Gérard ^b   Liu, Jinsong ^a   Prasad, Srividya ^a   Aarnisalo, Piia ^b   Liu, Xiaohong ^a   Xu, Haoda ^a   Walker, Nigel P C ^a   Perlmann, Thomas ^b  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPLEXATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PROTEINS;

GENE TRANSCRIPTION;

GENES;

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGAND BINDING; LIPOPHILICITY; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038526314     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01645     Document Type: Article

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