α-Tubulin acetylation from the inside out

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

Volumn 109, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 19515-19516

  Al Bassam, Jawdat ^a   Corbett, Kevin D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; ALPHA TUBULIN ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ASPARAGINE; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMINE; LYSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; MICROTUBULE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; UBIQUITINATION;

ACETYL COENZYME A; ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; TUBULIN;

EID: 84870380891     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217594109     Document Type: Note

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