Sj-FABPc fatty-acid-binding protein of the human blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum: Structural and functional characterization and unusual solvent exposure of a portal-proximal tryptophan residue

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 349, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 377-384

  Kennedy, Malcolm W ^a   Scott, Julie C ^b   Lo, Steven ^a   Beauchamp, Jeremy ^c   McManus, Donald P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytosolic lipid binding proteins; Fluorescent lipid analogues; Polymorphism; Portal region; Tryptophan fluorescence

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; OLEIC ACID; SOLVENT; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENE DELETION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; KINETICS; LIGANDS; LIVER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OLEIC ACID; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN; VITAMIN A;

PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0034235952     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3490377     Document Type: Article

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