Crystal structure of a secreted insect ferritin reveals a symmetrical arrangement of heavy and light chains

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 349, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 558-569

  Hamburger, Agnes E ^a,b   West Jr , Anthony P ^a   Hamburger, Zsuzsa A ^a,d   Hamburger, Peter ^c   Bjorkman, Pamela J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Ferritin; Insect; Iron storage; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HEAVY CHAIN; INSECT; LIGHT CHAIN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

INSECTA; TRICHOPLUSIA NI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 19444383537     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.03.074     Document Type: Article

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