AIRE Functions as an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-172

  Uchida, Daisuke ^a   Hatakeyama, Shigetsugu ^b,c   Matsushima, Akemi ^a   Han, Hongwei ^a   Ishido, Satoshi ^d   Hotta, Hak ^d   Kudoh, Jun ^e   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^e   Doucas, Vassilis ^f   Nakayama, Keiichi I ^b,c   Kuroda, Noriyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Mitsuru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

APECED; PHD domain; Self tolerance; Transcriptional regulator; Ubiquitylation

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PHD1 PROTEIN; PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINOPATHY CANDIDIASIS ECTODERMAL DYSTROPHY; AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATOR GENE; THYMOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYENDOCRINOPATHIES, AUTOIMMUNE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SELF TOLERANCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 1642500086     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20031291     Document Type: Article

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