RPEL motifs link the serum response factor cofactor MAL but not myocardin to Rho signaling via actin binding

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 732-742

  Guettler, Sebastian ^a   Vartiainen, Maria K ^a,b   Miralles, Francesc ^a,c   Larijani, Banafshe ^a   Treisman, Richard ^a  

^a THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; G ACTIN; MAL PROTEIN; MYOCARDIN; RHO FACTOR; RPEL PROTEIN; RPEL1 PROTEIN; RPEL2 PROTEIN; RPEL3 PROTEIN; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CYTOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN PROTEINS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEOLIPIDS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 37849015440     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01623-07     Document Type: Article

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