Crystal structure of the ligand-binding domain of the receptor tyrosine kinase EphB2

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6710, 1998, Pages 486-491

  Himanen, Juha Pekka ^a   Henkemeyer, Mark ^b   Nikolov, Dimitar B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIGAND BINDING; MISSENSE MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EPHRIN-A5; EPHRIN-B2; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, EPHB2;

EID: 0032480889     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/24904     Document Type: Article

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