Cysteine 397 plays important roles in the folding of the neuron-restricted silencer factor/RE1-silencing transcription factor

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 414, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-314

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Shen, Jie ^a   Tong, Xiaotian ^a   Yang, Zhongzheng ^a   Shen, Zhangzhou ^a   Lan, Wenxian ^a   Wu, Houming ^a   Cao, Chunyang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

CD; Cys397; Expression; NMR; NRSF REST; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; NEURON RESTRICTIVE SILENCER FACTOR; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; RE1 SILENCING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYSTEINE; MICE; NEURONS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 80054842116     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.09.045     Document Type: Article

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