Common EF-hand motifs in cholinesterases and neuroligins suggest a role for Ca2+ binding in cell surface associations

Protein Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 180-185

  Tsigelny, I ^a   Shindyalov, I N ^b   Bourne, P E ^a,b   Sudhof T C ^c   Taylor, P ^a  

^a San Diego   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Combinatorial Extension (CE) algorithm; EF hand; Hidden Markov Models (HMM); Neuroligin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL SURFACE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA;

TORPEDO CALIFORNICA;

EID: 0033960385     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.1.180     Document Type: Article

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