A single disulfide bridge (Cys182-Cys264) is crucial for α-dystroglycan N-terminal domain stability

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 857, Issue , 1998, Pages 228-231

  Brancaccio, Andrea ^a   Jenö, Paul ^b   Engel, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DYSTROGLYCAN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031761254     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10119.x     Document Type: Article

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