A novel protein-mineral interface

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 297-302

  Alexeev, Dmitriy ^a   Zhu, Haizhong ^a   Guo, Maolin ^a,b   Zhong, Weiqing ^a,c   Hunter, Dominic J B ^a   Yang, Weiping ^a,c   Campopiano, Dominic J ^a   Sadler, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC ION; HAFNIUM; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; METAL OXIDE; MINERAL; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN NFBP; TITANIUM; TRANSFERRIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE CLUSTER; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON TRANSPORT; METAL BINDING; MINERAL METABOLISM; MINERALIZATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MONITORING; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HAFNIUM; IRON; METALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 0037386999     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb903     Document Type: Article

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