The ubiquitin ligase Ubr2, a recognition E3 component of the N-end rule pathway, stabilizes Tex19.1 during spermatogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Fang ^a   Cheng, Yong ^a   An, Jee Young ^b   Kwon, Yong Tae ^b,c   Eckardt, Sigrid ^d   Leu, N Adrian ^a   Mclaughlin, K John ^d   Wang, Peijing Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN TEX19.1; UBIQUITIN LIGASE UBR2; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYSTEINE; METHIONINE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TEX19 PROTEIN, MOUSE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UBR2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEATH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; 129 MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; METHIONINE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NIH 3T3 CELLS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 78649496203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014017     Document Type: Article

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