"Sterile Alpha Motif" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A putative protein interaction module, approximately 70 amino acids long, that forms a small five-helix bundle with two large interfaces which may homo- and hetero-oligomerize, or bind non-sterile-alpha motif targets. The sterile alpha motif is present in a wide variety of eukaryotic proteins that function in diverse biological processes.
| Descriptor ID |
D000071682
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.570.820.709.275.500.898 G02.111.570.820.709.275.750.500.813
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| Concept/Terms |
Sterile Alpha Motif- Sterile Alpha Motif
- Motif, Sterile Alpha
- Motifs, Sterile Alpha
- Sterile Alpha Motifs
- Sterile Alpha Motif Domain
- SAM Domain
- SAM Domains
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