Inscuteable and NuMA proteins bind competitively to Leu-Gly-Asn repeat-enriched protein (LGN) during asymmetric cell divisions

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

Volumn 108, Issue 52, 2011, Pages 20998-21003

  Culurgioni, Simone ^a   Alfieri, Andrea ^a   Pendolino, Valentina ^a   Laddomada, Federica ^a   Mapelli, Marina ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; INSCUTEABLE PROTEIN; LGN PROTEIN; NEUROLIGIN; NUMA PROTEIN; PINS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DIVISION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CELL POLARITY; CHICKENS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE DISSOCIATION INHIBITORS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR MATRIX-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; ORYZIAS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATIC ELECTRICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84855487476     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113077108     Document Type: Article

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