Critical contacts between the eukaryotic initiation factor 2B (eIF2B) catalytic domain and both eIF2β and -2γ mediate guanine nucleotide exchange

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 5225-5234

  Mohammad Qureshi, Sarah S ^a   Haddad, Raphaël ^a   Hemingway, Elizabeth J ^a   Richardson, Jonathan P ^a,b   Pavitt, Graham D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GCN4 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; COLD; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2B; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SALTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34447514386     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00495-07     Document Type: Article

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