Correlation between conformational and binding properties of nebulin repeats

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 367-384

  Pfuhl, Mark ^a   Winder, Steven J ^b   Morelli, Maria A Castiglione ^c   Labeit, Siegfried ^a   Pastore, Annalisa ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actin; Muscle; Structure; Thin filament

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; NEBULIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; TRIFLUOROETHANOL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; THIN FILAMENT;

EID: 0029966287     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0169     Document Type: Article

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