Structural basis of Dscam isoform specificity

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7161, 2007, Pages 487-491

  Meijers, Rob ^a,b,d   Puettmann Holgado, Roland ^a,b,c   Skiniotis, Georgios ^b   Liu, Jin Huan ^a,b   Walz, Thomas ^b   Wang, Jia Huai ^a,b   Schmucker, Dietmar ^a,b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DSCAM PROTEIN; EPITOPE; GENE PRODUCT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MUTATION; PEPTIDE; PHYLOGENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DSCAM GENE; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; X RAY;

EID: 34548608131     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06147     Document Type: Article

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