Molecular packing and packing defects in helical membrane proteins

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1970-1977

  Hildebrand, Peter Werner ^a   Rother, Kristian ^a   Goede, Andrean ^a   Preissner, Robert ^a   Frömmel, Cornelius ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLOBULAR PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CALCULATION; CHANNEL GATING; DENSITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; POROSITY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION SITE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ION CHANNELS; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 21244502261     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.049585     Document Type: Article

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