Genome-Wide analysis of histidine repeats reveals their role in the localization of human proteins to the nuclear speckles compartment

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Salichs, Eulàlia ^a,b   Ledda, Alice ^c   Mularoni, Loris ^c   Albà, M Mar ^c,d,e   De La Luna, Susana ^a,b,d,e  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

^c INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEOME; RNA POLYMERASE II; AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TANDEM REPEAT; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 62149119245     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000397     Document Type: Article

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