Crystal structure of the C-terminal domain of the ε subunit of human translation initiation factor eIF2B

Protein and Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 595-603

  Wei, Jia ^a,b   Jia, Minze ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Wang, Mingzhu ^a   Gao, Feng ^a   Xu, Hang ^a   Gong, Weimin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

crystal structure; eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2B (eIF2B); guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF); HEAT motif; vanishing white matter (VWM)

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR ALPHA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR BETA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR DELTA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR EPSILON; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR GAMMA; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VANISHING WHITE MATTER;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79953227385     PISSN: 1674800X     EISSN: 16748018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13238-010-0070-6     Document Type: Article

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