The glycine brace: A component of Rab, Rho, and Ran GTPases associated with hinge regions of guanine- and phosphate-binding loops

BMC Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Neuwald, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; GLYCINE; GUANINE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATE; RAB PROTEIN; RAC PROTEIN; RAN PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; SERINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; WATER; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; MONOMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GLYCINE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 62549113471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-9-11     Document Type: Article

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