Site-specific phosphorylation induces functionally active conformation in the intrinsically disordered N-terminal activation function (AF1) domain of the glucocorticoid receptor

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 220-230

  Garza, Anna M S ^a   Khan, Shagufta H ^b   Kumar, Raj ^b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Janet Weis Children s Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CREB-BINDING PROTEIN; HUMANS; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 1; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 73549096417     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00552-09     Document Type: Article

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