Phosphorylation of U24 from Human Herpes Virus type 6 (HHV-6) and its potential role in mimicking myelin basic protein (MBP) in multiple sclerosis

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2685-2688

  Tait, Andrew R ^a   Straus, Suzana K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kinase; Mimicry; Myelin; Phosphorylation; U24

Indexed keywords

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN U24;

ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; PHOSPHOAMINO ACIDS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; THREONINE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 47849114837     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.06.050     Document Type: Article

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