Tor forms a dimer through an N-terminal helical solenoid with a complex topology

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Baretić, Domagoj ^a   Berndt, Alex ^a   Ohashi, Yohei ^a   Johnson, Christopher M ^a   Williams, Roger L ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT PLUS KINASE DOMAIN; KU ANTIGEN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 2; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REGULATORY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN OF TOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MECHANISTIC TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TOR COMPLEX 2;

CATABOLISM; CHEMICAL BINDING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN; TOPOLOGY;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEAT REPEAT DOMAIN; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; KLUYVEROMYCES MARXIANUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; KLUYVEROMYCES; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

SOLENOIDEA;

ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMANS; KLUYVEROMYCES; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84963976230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11016     Document Type: Article

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