Structure of the profilin-poly-L-proline complex involved in morphogenesis and cytoskeletal regulation

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 953-960

  Mahoney, Nicole M ^a   Janmey, Paul A ^b   Almo, Steven C ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; F ACTIN; PROFILIN; PROLINE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOOD PLATELETS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; LIGANDS; LIGHT; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; PROFILINS; PROLINE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030710460     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1197-953     Document Type: Article

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