- SAND protein
SAND protein family, first described in "
Saccharomyces cerevisiae " (but also in the animals "Fugu rubripes ", "Caenorhabditis elegans ", "Drosophila melanogaster " and "Homo sapiens " and in the plant "Arabidopsis thaliana " usingcomparative genomics [Cottage, A. and Edwards, Y.J.K. and Elgar, G. (2001). [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/fref.fcgi?PrId=3467&itool=AbstractPlus-def&uid=15647795&db=pubmed&url=http://www.cmbl.org.pl/pdf/Vol9_p739.pdf SAND, a new protein family: from nucleic acid to protein structure and function prediction] . Comparative and Functional Genomics, 2(4):226--235] ), ismembrane protein related withvesicle traffic (vacuole fussion inyeast s andlysosome one inmammals and other "taxa". [Cottage A, Mullan L, Portela MB, Hellen E, Carver T, Patel S, Vavouri T, Elgar G, Edwards YJ. (2004). [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15647795 Molecular characterisation of the SAND protein family: a study based on comparative genomics, structural bioinformatics and phylogeny] . Cell Mol Biol Lett. 2004;9(4A):739-53.Click here to read] In humans has been described an interaction withHSV-1 , avirus which producesHerpes simplex . [DONG S. ; DONG C. ; LIU L. ; CHE Y. ; SUN M. ; HU F. ; LI J. ; LI Q. (2003). [http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14845462 Identification of a novel human sand family protein in human fibroblasts induced by herpes simplex virus 1 binding] Acta virologica. 47(1):27-32]See also
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SNARE (protein) References
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