Solution structure of the β-subunit of the translation initiation factor aIF2 from archaebacteria Sulfolobus solfataricus

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1112-1115

  Vasile, Francesca ^a   Pechkova, Eugenia ^a   Nicolini, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

aIF2; NMR; Solution structure; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR AIF2; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SOLUTIONS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

ARCHAEA; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 38549094716     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21797     Document Type: Article

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