Polyglutamine is not all: The functional role of the AXH domain in the ataxin-1 protein

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 354, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 883-893

  De Chiara, Cesira ^a   Menon, Rajesh P ^a   Dal Piaz, Fabrizio ^b   Calder, Lesley ^a   Pastore, Annalisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AXH; Polyglutamine; RNA binding; SCA1; Transcriptional repressor

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; ATAXIN 1; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AXH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HBP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CELL STRAIN COS1; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; IN VITRO STUDY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ATAXIA;

EID: 28444444502     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.09.083     Document Type: Article

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