Crystal structures of a single coiled-coil peptide in two oligomeric states reveal the basis for structural polymorphism

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1002-1010

  Gonzalez Jr , Lino ^a   Brown, Russell A ^b   Richardson, Diane ^b,c   Alber, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARAGINE; DIMER; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OLIGOMER;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 16944363590     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1296-1002     Document Type: Article

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