Structural basis of substrate recognition and specificity in the N-end rule pathway

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1182-1187

  Matta Camacho, Edna ^a   Kozlov, Guennadi ^a   Li, Flora F ^a   Gehring, Kalle ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ISOLEUCINE; N RECOGNIN; PEPTIDE; PHENYLALANINE; POLYUBIQUITIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN UBR1; PROTEIN UBR2; PROTEIN UBR3; PROTEIN UBR4; PROTEIN UBR5; PROTEIN UBR6; PROTEIN UBR7; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; JOHANSON BLIZZARD SYNDROME; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EXOCRINE PANCREATIC INSUFFICIENCY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SYNDROME; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 77957790301     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1894     Document Type: Article

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