Molecular Determinants for Unphosphorylated STAT3 Dimerization Determined by Integrative Modeling

Biochemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 5489-5501

  Sgrignani, Jacopo ^a   Olsson, Simon ^a,d   Ekonomiuk, Dariusz ^a   Genini, Davide ^b   Krause, Rolf ^a   Catapano, Carlo V ^b   Cavalli, Andrea ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DETERMINANTS; PATHOLOGICAL MUTATIONS; PROTEIN-PROTEIN DOCKING; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERFACE; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSACTIVATION DOMAIN;

DIMERS;

ALANINE; DIMER; DOCKING PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DIMERIZATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84941108057     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi501529x     Document Type: Article

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