Loop 7 of E2 enzymes: An ancestral conserved functional motif involved in the E2-mediated steps of the ubiquitination cascade

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Papaleo, Elena ^a,b   Casiraghi, Nicola ^a   Arrigoni, Alberto ^a   Vanoni, Marco ^a   Coccetti, Paola ^a   de Gioia, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RING FINGER PROTEIN; RING FINGER PROTEIN RBX1; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN ACTIVATING ENZYME E1; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME E2; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; UBIQUITINATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES; UBIQUITINATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84864021794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040786     Document Type: Article

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