Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic study of the pentamerizing domain from cartilage oligomeric matrix protein: A five-stranded α-helical bundle

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 259-262

  Efimov, Vladimir P ^a,b   Engel, Jürgen ^a   Malashkevich, Vladimir N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coiled coil; Extracellular matrix; Thrombospondin

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

CARTILAGE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0029868783     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199602)24:2<259::AID-PROT13>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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