Phase transitions in the assembly of multivalent signalling proteins

Nature

Volumn 483, Issue 7389, 2012, Pages 336-340

  Li, Pilong ^a   Banjade, Sudeep ^a   Cheng, Hui Chun ^a   Kim, Soyeon ^a   Chen, Baoyu ^a   Guo, Liang ^b   Llaguno, Marc ^c   Hollingsworth, Javoris V ^d   King, David S ^e   Banani, Salman F ^a   Russo, Paul S ^d   Jiang, Qiu Xing ^c   Nixon, B Tracy ^f   Rosen, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; NCK PROTEIN; NEPHRIN; NEURAL WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DROPLET; NEUROLOGY; NUCLEATION; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMER; PROTEIN; SEPARATION;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; MACROMOLECULE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; BINDING SITES; BIOPOLYMERS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROLINE-RICH PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN, NEURONAL;

EID: 84862776582     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10879     Document Type: Article

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