A distinct 14 residue site triggers coiled-coil formation in cortexillin I

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1883-1891

  Steinmetz, Michel O ^a   Stock, Alexander ^b   Schulthess, Therese ^a   Landwehr, Ruth ^a   Lustig, Ariel ^a   Faix, Jan ^b   Gerisch, Günther ^b   Aebi, Ueli ^a   Kammerer, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical ultracentrifugation; Autonomous helical folding unit; Circular dichroism spectroscopy; Electron microscopy; Heptad repeats

Indexed keywords

CORTEXILLIN I; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IONIC STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DICTYOSTELIUM; DIMERIZATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 0032055747     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.7.1883     Document Type: Article

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