Crystal structure of a conger eel galectin (Congerin II) at 1.45 Å resolution: Implication for the accelerated evolution of a new ligand-binding site following gene duplication

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 321, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 879-889

  Shirai, Tsuyoshi ^a   Matsui, Yuuka ^a   Shionyu Mitsuyama, Clara ^a   Yamane, Takashi ^a   Kamiya, Hisao ^b   Ishii, Chihiro ^c   Ogawa, Tomohisa ^c   Muramoto, Koji ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galectin; Natural selection; Protein evolution; Protein fold; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

2 MORPHOLINOETHANESULFONIC ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; PROLACTIN; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGUILLIFORMES; CONGER; CONGER MYRIASTER;

EID: 0036384139     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00700-3     Document Type: Article

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