Molecular basis of the acetyltransferase activity of MEC-17 towards α-tubulin

Cell Research

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1707-1711

  Li, Wenjing ^a,c   Zhong, Chen ^a   Li, Lei ^a,c   Sun, Bingfa ^a   Wang, Weiyi ^b   Xu, Shutong ^a,c   Zhang, Tianlong ^a   Wang, Chunguang ^b   Bao, Lan ^a   Ding, Jianping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MEC 17 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MEC-17 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; LETTER; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TUBULIN;

EID: 84870582570     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2012.154     Document Type: Letter

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