Molecular basis for the substrate specificity of plant guanine nucleotide exchange factors for ROP

FEBS Letters

Volumn 583, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-80

  Fricke, Inka ^a   Berken, Antje ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

PRONE; Rho insert; Rho of plants; ROP RAC; RopGEF; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN ROP GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; PROTEIN ROP4; PROTEIN ROP5; PROTEIN ROP9; RAC1 PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 57749191239     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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