Tubulin tyrosine ligase structure reveals adaptation of an ancient fold to bind and modify tubulin

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1250-1258

  Szyk, Agnieszka ^a   Deaconescu, Alexandra M ^b   Piszczek, Grzegorz ^c   Roll Mecak, Antonina ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGASE; PROTEIN TUBULIN TYROSINE LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TUBULIN; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 80555122785     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2148     Document Type: Article

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