Structural insights into the stability and flexibility of unusual erythroid spectrin repeats

Structure

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 645-656

  Kusunoki, Hideki ^a   MacDonald, Ruby I ^a   Mondragón, Alfonso ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SPECTRIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROID CELL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTRIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 1842450320     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2004.02.022     Document Type: Article

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