High-resolution structures of the ligand binding domain of the wild-type bacterial aspartate receptor

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 186-201

  Yeh, Joanne I ^a,c   Biemann, Hans Peter ^b,d   Privé, Gil G ^a,e   Pandit, Jay ^a,f   Koshland Jr , Daniel E ^b   Kim, Sung Hou ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d GENZYME CORPORATION   (United States)

^e PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartate receptor structure; Conformational changes; Receptor ligand interactions; Transmembrane signaling; X ray crystal structure

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECEPTOR; SULFATE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030595334     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0507     Document Type: Article

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