Intermolecular domain swapping induces intein-mediated protein alternative splicing

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 616-622

  Aranko, A Sesilja ^a   Oeemig, Jesper S ^a   Kajander, Tommi ^a   Iwaï, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INTRON; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; THERMOPLASMA; THERMOPLASMA VOLCANIUM;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; INTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN SPLICING; PROTEINS;

EID: 84884534293     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1320     Document Type: Article

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