Crystal structure of the amino-terminal domain of N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 175-182

  May, Andrew P ^a   Misura, Kira M S ^a   Whiteheart, Sidney W ^b   Weis, William I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE SENSITIVE FACTOR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRICETULUS; DRUG EFFECT; HAMSTER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ETHYLMALEIMIDE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ETHYLMALEIMIDE-SENSITIVE PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SNARE PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0033163807     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/11097     Document Type: Article

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