Calcium-dependent homoassociation of E-cadherin by NMR spectroscopy: Changes in mobility, conformation and mapping of contact regions

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 324, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 823-839

  Häussinger, Daniel ^a   Ahrens, Thomas ^a   Sass, Hans Jürgen ^a   Pertz, Olivier ^a   Engel, Jürgen ^a   Grzesiek, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Dynamics; Protein; Residual dipolar coupling; Shift mapping

Indexed keywords

CAD PROTEIN; CADHERIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CRYSTALLIN; DIMER; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; UVOMORULIN;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTRUM;

EID: 0036930192     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01137-3     Document Type: Article

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