Structural studies of IRF4 reveal a flexible autoinhibitory region and a compact linker domain

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 290, Issue 46, 2015, Pages 27779-27790

  Remesh, Soumya G ^a   Santosh, Vishaka ^a   Escalante, Carlos R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; DICHROISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS;

ACTIVATION DOMAIN; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; SOLUTION STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROGRAM; UNIQUE FEATURES;

X RAY SCATTERING;

INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-4;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BINDING SITE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84946935170     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M115.678789     Document Type: Article

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