Molecular architecture of the rod domain of the Dictyostelium gelation factor (ABP120)

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 291, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1017-1023

  Fucini, Paola ^a   Köppel, Bernd ^a   Schleicher, Michael ^b   Lustig, Ariel ^c   Holak, Tad A ^a   Müller, Rolf ^e   Stewart, Murray ^d   Noegel, Angelika A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical ultracentrifugation; Dimerisation; Filamin ABP280; MALDI; NMR

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CROSS LINKING; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0344132069     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3046     Document Type: Article

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