Crystal Structure of the α Subunit of Human Translation Initiation Factor 2B

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 392, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 937-951

  Hiyama, Takuya B ^a,b   Ito, Takuhiro ^a,b   Imataka, Hiroaki ^b,c   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter syndrome; eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2B; guanine nucleotide exchange factor; translation; translation regulation

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; SULFATE; TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 2B ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 69749110515     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.07.054     Document Type: Article

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