Influence of Proline Residues in Transmembrane Helix Packing

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 335, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 631-640

  Orzáez, Mar ^a   Salgado, Jesús ^a   Giménez Giner, Ana ^a   Pérez Payá, Enrique ^a,b   Mingarro, Ismael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b FVIB   (Spain)

Author keywords

Glycophorin A; Helix packing; Proline; Protein structure; Transmembrane helix

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPHORIN A; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROLINE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; GLYCOSYLATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTAGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0346996695     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.10.062     Document Type: Article

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