Crystal structure of tubulin folding cofactor A from Arabidopsis thaliana and its β-tubulin binding characterization

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3533-3539

  Lu, Lu ^a,b   Nan, Jie ^a   Mi, Wei ^a   Li, Lan Fen ^a   Wei, Chun Hong ^a,b   Su, Xiao Dong ^a   Li, Yi ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Peking Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiotechnology   (China)

Author keywords

Tubulin binding; Arabidopsis; Crystal structure; Tubulin folding cofactor A (TFC A)

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; BINDING PROTEIN; TUBULIN FOLDING COFACTOR A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUBULIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 77955662144     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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