Hydrophobic Pockets at the Membrane Interface: An Original Mechanism for Membrane Protein Interactions

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1276-1282

  Arluison, Véronique ^a,c   Seguin, Jérôme ^a   Le Caer, Jean Pierre ^b   Sturgis, James N ^a   Robert, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Brain Plasticity Unit   (France)

^c INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; ENTHALPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYPEPTIDES; PROTEINS;

MEMBRANE INTERFACES;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

AMINO ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEINASE; TRYPSIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ENTHALPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REFLECTOMETRY; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THERMODYNAMICS; TRYPSIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOSPIRILLUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

EID: 0842347943     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi030205v     Document Type: Article

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