End Binding Proteins Are Obligatory Dimers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Sen, Indrani ^a   Veprintsev, Dmitry ^a   Akhmanova, Anna ^b   Steinmetz, Michel O ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DIMER; END BINDING PROTEIN; END BINDING PROTEIN 1; END BINDING PROTEIN 3; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE PLUS END TRACKING PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THERMOSTABILITY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84883620766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074448     Document Type: Article

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