Solution Structure of the QUA1 Dimerization Domain of pXqua, the Xenopus Ortholog of Quaking

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ali, Muzaffar ^a,b   Broadhurst, R William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN GLD 1; PROTEIN QKI; PROTEIN SAM 68; QUA1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROGEN BOND; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 84874775982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057345     Document Type: Article

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