A study of the ultrastructure of fragile-X-related proteins

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 419, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 347-357

  Sjekloća, Ljiljana ^a   Konarev, Petr V ^b,c   Eccleston, John ^a   Taylor, Ian A ^a   Svergun, Dmitri I ^b,c   Pastore, Annalisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Biophysics; Fragile X mental retardation; Fragile X related protein; Small angle X ray scattering; Structure

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; C-TERMINUS; CONSERVED REGIONS; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEINS; FRAGILE-X-RELATED PROTEIN; FULL-LENGTH PROTEINS; GLYCINE RESIDUES; MENTAL RETARDATION; MONODISPERSITY; MULTIDOMAIN FRAGMENT; N-TERMINAL; RNA METABOLISMS; SELF-ASSOCIATION; SELF-ASSOCIATION PROPERTIES; SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE; X SYNDROME;

AMINO ACIDS; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BIOPHYSICS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; RNA; SCATTERING;

X RAY SCATTERING;

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X RELATED PROTEIN 1; FRAGILE X RELATED PROTEIN 2; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION X RAY SCATTERING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 64249166478     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20082197     Document Type: Article

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