Membrane fusion by the GTPase atlastin requires a conserved C-terminal cytoplasmic tail and dimerization through the middle domain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 11133-11138

  Moss, Tyler J ^a   Andreazza, Camilla ^b   Verma, Avani ^a   Daga, Andrea ^b   McNew, James A ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endoplasmic reticulum biogenesis; Hereditary spastic paraplegia; Organelle fusion; Spastic paraplegia gene 3A

Indexed keywords

ATLASTIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; MEMBRANE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; KINETICS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 79960580492     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105056108     Document Type: Article

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