The BTB protein MEL-26 is a substrate-specific adaptor of the CUL-3 ubiquitin-ligase

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6955, 2003, Pages 311-316

  Pintard, Lionel ^a   Willis, John H ^b   Willems, Andrew ^c   Johnson, Jacque Lynne F ^d   Srayko, Martin ^d,e   Kurz, Thimo ^b   Glaser, Sarah ^a   Mains, Paul E ^d   Tyers, Mike ^c   Bowerman, Bruce ^b   Peter, Matthias ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CELL CULTURE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION;

PROTEINS;

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; BTB PROTEIN; CUL 3 UBIQUITIN LIGASE; CUL1 PROTEIN; CUL2 PROTEIN; CULLIN; ELONGIN C; F BOX PROTEIN; HRT1 PROTEIN; KATANIN; LIGASE; MEI 1 PROTEIN; MEL 26 PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RBX1 PROTEIN; ROC1 PROTEIN; SKP1 PROTEIN; SOCS BOX PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE MAPPING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ALLELES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CULLIN PROTEINS; LIGASES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0141493448     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01959     Document Type: Article

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