Visualization of an unstable coiled coil from the scallop myosin rod

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6946, 2003, Pages 341-345

  Li, Yu ^a,c   Brown, Jerry H ^a   Reshetnikova, Ludmilla ^a   Blazsek, Antal ^b   Farkas, László ^b   Nyitray, László ^b   Cohen, Carolyn ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c BOSTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ATOMS; CELLS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULES; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS;

CELLULAR FUNCTIONS;

MUSCLE;

LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN II; TROPOMYOSIN; SOLVENT;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLIABILITY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLLUSCA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROSTATICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; MYOSIN TYPE II; PLIABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOLVENTS;

EID: 0042808434     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01801     Document Type: Article

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