All-trans retinol, vitamin D and other hydrophobic compounds bind in the axial pore of the five-stranded coiled-coil domain of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 5265-5272

  Guo, Yuan ^a   Bozic, Damir ^a   Malashkevich, Vladimir N ^a,b   Kammerer, Richard A ^a   Schulthess, Therese ^a   Engel, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Hydrophobic pore; Storage; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; COLECALCIFEROL; CYCLOHEXANE; ELAIDIC ACID; MATRIX PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARTILAGE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BENZENE; BINDING SITES; CHOLECALCIFEROL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYCLOHEXANES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLEIC ACID; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRETINOIN;

EID: 0032530389     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.18.5265     Document Type: Article

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