Farnesylated and methylated KRAS4b: High yield production of protein suitable for biophysical studies of prenylated protein-lipid interactions

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gillette, William K ^a   Esposito, Dominic ^a   Abreu Blanco, Maria ^a   Alexander, Patrick ^a   Bindu, Lakshman ^a   Bittner, Cammi ^a   Chertov, Oleg ^a   Frank, Peter H ^a   Grose, Carissa ^a   Jones, Jane E ^a   Meng, Zhaojing ^a   Perkins, Shelley ^a   Van, Que ^a   Ghirlando, Rodolfo ^b   Fivash, Matthew ^c   Nissley, Dwight V ^a   McCormick, Frank ^a   Holderfield, Matthew ^a   Stephen, Andrew G ^a  

^a FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; LIPID; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN P21; RAF PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMAN; INSECT; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN PRENYLATION;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; INSECTS; LIPIDS; METHYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PRENYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); RAF KINASES;

EID: 84946226115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15916     Document Type: Article

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