Physiological truncation and domain organization of a novel uracil-DNA-degrading factor

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1245-1259

  Pukáncsik, Mária ^a   Békési, Angéla ^a   Klement, Éva ^a   Hunyadi Gulyás, Éva ^a   Medzihradszky, Katalin F ^a,b   Kosinski, Jan ^c,d   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^c,e   Alfonso, Carlos ^f   Rivas, Germán ^f   Vértessy, Beáta G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^e ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell death; DNA; Nuclease; Protein structural modeling; Uracil

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL; URACIL DNA DEGRADING FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GEL FILTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRIBOLIUM; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 76349103025     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07556.x     Document Type: Article

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