Structure and phospholipid transfer activity of human PLTP: Analysis by molecular modeling and site-directed mutagenesis

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1123-1130

  Huuskonen, Jarkko ^a   Wohlfahrt, Gerd ^b   Jauhiainen, Matti ^a   Ehnholm, Christian ^a   Teleman, Olle ^b,c   Olkkonen, Vesa M ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c IT Center for Science   (Finland)

Author keywords

HDL metabolism; Homology modeling; Lipid transfer proteins

Indexed keywords

BACTERICIDAL PERMEABILITY INCREASING PROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY RISK; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGAND BINDING; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; PHOSPHOLIPID METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; DISULFIDES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL3; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOSPHOLIPID TRANSFER PROTEINS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0032998391     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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