Structures of a key interaction protein from the Trypanosoma brucei editosome in complex with single domain antibodies

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 124-136

  Wu, Meiting ^a   Park, Young Jun ^a   Pardon, Els ^b,c   Turley, Stewart ^a   Hayhurst, Andrew ^d   Deng, Junpeng ^a   Steyaert, Jan ^b,c   Hol, Wim G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetoplastid; Nanobodies; OB fold proteins; RNA editing; VHH domain

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PROTEIN KREPA6; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; LLAMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

KINETOPLASTIDA; LAMA (MAMMAL); TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 79952451439     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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