The Caenorhabditis elegans kinesin-3 motor UNC-104/KIF1A is degraded upon loss of specific binding to cargo

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Kumar, Jitendra ^a   Choudhary, Bikash C ^a   Metpally, Raghu ^a,e   Zheng, Qun ^b   Nonet, Michael L ^b   Ramanathan, Sowdhamini ^a   Klopfenstein, Dieter R ^c,d   Koushika, Sandhya P ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d Drittes Physikalisches Institut   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN KIF1A; PROTEIN UNC 104; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UNC 104 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC-104 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SUPPRESSOR GENE; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KINESIN; MUTANT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5-DIPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 78649716037     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001200     Document Type: Article

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