A new class of hexahelical insect proteins revealed as putative carriers of small hydrophobic ligands

Structure

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1325-1332

  Rothemund, Sven ^a   Liou, Yih Cherng ^b   Davies, Peter L ^b   Krause, Eberhard ^a   Sönnichsen, Frank D ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PHARMAKOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

NMR spectroscopy; Pheromone binding; SAR; Tenebrio molitor

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; LIGAND; PHEROMONE; RECOVERIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGAND BINDING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TENEBRIO;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

EID: 0033571068     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(00)80022-2     Document Type: Article

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