Two-way communications between ubiquitin-like modifiers and DNA

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 317-324

  Ulrich, Helle D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; DNA; FANCONI ANEMIA PROTEIN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; SUMO PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BMI1 PROTEIN; HISTONE H2A; POLYUBIQUITIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR OF ACTIVATED STAT; RAP1 PROTEIN; REPLICATION FACTOR A; RNA POLYMERASE II; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; EXCISION REPAIR; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SUMOYLATION; UBIQUITINATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONJUGATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENE CONTROL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEOSOME; ORTHOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RING FINGER MOTIF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST;

DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SUMOYLATION; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84898745559     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2805     Document Type: Review

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