Cysteine residue periodicity is a conserved structural feature of variable surface proteins from Paramecium tetraurelia

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 222, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 835-841

  Nielsen, Erik ^a   You, Yun ^a   Forney, James ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cysteine periodicity; cysteine rich protein; paramecium; protozoa; surface protein

Indexed keywords

PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PROTOZOA;

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; SERINE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYSTEINE; DNA; GENES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PARAMECIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026338827     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(91)90573-O     Document Type: Article

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