Proteolytic E-cadherin activation followed by solution NMR and X-ray crystallography

EMBO Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1699-1708

  Häussinger, Daniel ^a   Ahrens, Thomas ^a   Aberle, Thomas ^b   Engel, Jürgen ^a   Stetefeld, Jörg ^a   Grzesiek, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular adhesion; Prodomain; Protein dynamics; Protein structure; Proteolytic activation

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; TRYPTOPHAN; UVOMORULIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BINDING SITE; CELL ADHESION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 17544403421     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600192     Document Type: Article

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