The polyprotein and FAR lipid binding proteins of nematodes: Shape and monomer/dimer states in ligand-free and bound forms

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 465-476

  Solovyova, Alexandra S ^a,b   Meenan, Nicola ^c   McDermott, Lindsay ^a,c   Garofalo, Antonio ^d   Bradley, Jannette E ^d   Kennedy, Malcolm W ^a   Byron, Olwyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytical ultracentrifugation; Hydrodynamic bead modelling; Nematode fatty acid binding proteins; Protein ligand interaction Small angle X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; DIMER; FATTY ACID AND RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; LIPID BINDING PROTEIN; MONOMER; OLEIC ACID; POLYPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGAND BINDING; MODEL; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEDIMENTATION; STOICHIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASCARIS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; LIGANDS; LIPIDS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ONCHOCERCA; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0041857977     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-003-0297-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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