Ubiquitin utilizes an acidic surface patch to alter chromatin structure

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 105-110

  Debelouchina, Galia T ^a   Gerecht, Karola ^a,b   Muir, Tom W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; UBIQUITIN; CHROMATIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN EXCHANGE; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; HUMAN; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

CHROMATIN; DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 84996758785     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2235     Document Type: Article

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