Environmentally induced reversible conformational switching in the yeast cell adhesion protein α-agglutinin

Protein Science

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1113-1123

  Zhao, Hui ^a,d   Chen, Min Hao ^a,e   Shen, Zheng Ming ^a   Kahn, Peter C ^b   Lipke, Peter N ^a,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion protein; Circular dichroism; Conformational shift; Glycoprotein; Peptide conformation; Secondary structure prediction

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; ALPHA AGGLUTININ; GLYCOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CELL ADHESION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENVIRONMENT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE; YEAST CELL;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DISULFIDES; ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0035000377     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.41701     Document Type: Article

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