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568

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Alastair Aitken was affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their academic profile includes research contributions grounded at this institution.

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Best Publications

  • The structural basis for 14-3-3:phosphopeptide binding specificity.

    Michael B Yaffe;Katrin Rittinger;Stefano Volinia;Paul R Caron

  • 14-3-3 proteins: A historic overview

    Alastair Aitken

  • 14-3-3 proteins: a highly conserved, widespread family of eukaryotic proteins.

    Alastair Aitken;D. B. Collinge;B. P. H. van Heusden;T. Isobe

  • Structure of a 14-3-3 protein and implications for coordination of multiple signalling pathways

    Bing Xiao;Stephen J. Smerdon;David H. Jones;Guy G. Dodson;Guy G. Dodson

  • 14-3-3 and its possible role in co-ordinating multiple signalling pathways.

    Alastair Aitken

  • Interaction of Akt-Phosphorylated Ataxin-1 with 14-3-3 Mediates Neurodegeneration in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1

    Hung Kai Chen;Hung Kai Chen;Pedro Fernandez-Funez;Summer F. Acevedo;Yung C. Lam

  • Glycogen Synthase from Rabbit Skeletal Muscle

    Dennis B. Rylatt;Alastair Aitken;Terence Bilham;Gerard D. Condon

  • Identification of the NH2‐terminal blocking group of calcineurin B as myristic acid

    Alastair Aitken;Philip Cohen;Sitthivet Santikarn;Dudley H. Williams

  • 14-3-3 proteins on the MAP

    Alastair Aitken

  • Isoforms of 14-3-3 protein can form homo- and heterodimers in vivo and in vitro: implications for function as adapter proteins

    David H. Jones;Steven Ley;Alastair Aitken

  • Phosphorylation-dependent interactions between enzymes of plant metabolism and 14-3-3 proteins.

    Greg Moorhead;Pauline Douglas;Valerie Cotelle;Jean Harthill

  • Protein kinase C inhibitor proteins. Purification from sheep brain and sequence similarity to lipocortins and 14-3-3 protein.

    Alex Toker;Christine A. Ellis;Lynda A. Sellers;Alastair Aitken

  • Phosphorylated nitrate reductase from spinach leaves is inhibited by 14-3-3 proteins and activated by fusicoccin

    Greg Moorhead;Pauline Douglas;Nick Morrice;Marie Scarabel

  • Protein Determination by UV Absorption

    Alastair Aitken;Michèle P. Learmonth

  • 14-3-3 alpha and delta are the phosphorylated forms of raf-activating 14-3-3 beta and zeta. In vivo stoichiometric phosphorylation in brain at a Ser-Pro-Glu-Lys MOTIF.

    Alastair Aitken;Steve Howell;David Jones;Joel Madrazo

  • A PROTEIN SECRETED IN VIVO BY ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS INHIBITS ELASTASE ACTIVITY AND NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS

    James C. Shepherd;Alastair Aitken;Donald P. McManus

  • Neurofibrillary tangles of Alzheimer's disease brains contain 14-3-3 proteins.

    Layfield R;Fergusson J;Aitken A;Lowe J

  • Functional specificity in 14-3-3 isoform interactions through dimer formation and phosphorylation. Chromosome location of mammalian isoforms and variants

    Alastair Aitken

  • Phosphorylation of the type-II regulatory subunit of cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase by glycogen synthase kinase 3 and glycogen synthase kinase 5.

    Brian A. Hemmings;Alastair Aitken;Philip Cohen;Michael Rymond

  • HIV-1 reverse transcriptase: crystallization and analysis of domain structure by limited proteolysis.

    Denise M. Lowe;Alastair Aitken;Christopher Bradley;Graham K. Darby

Frequent Co-Authors

David T. Jones
David T. Jones University College London
Philip Cohen
Philip Cohen University of Dundee
Jens Wiltfang
Jens Wiltfang University of Göttingen
Stuart Knutton
Stuart Knutton University of Birmingham
Peter H. Williams
Peter H. Williams University of Leicester
Carol MacKintosh
Carol MacKintosh University of Dundee
Christian Rommel
Christian Rommel Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Stephen J. Smerdon
Stephen J. Smerdon University of Birmingham
Steven J. Gamblin
Steven J. Gamblin The Francis Crick Institute

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