Snorkeling preferences foster an amino acid composition bias in transmembrane helices

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 339, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 471-479

  Chamberlain, Aaron K ^a   Lee, Yohan ^a   Kim, Sanguk ^a   Bowie, James U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

membrane; polarity; POPC, palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine; protein; rotamer; side chain; SnD, snorkeling distance; SnP, snorkeling propensity; TM, transmembrane

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; LYSINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METHIONINE; PHENYLALANINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 2342544065     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.03.072     Document Type: Article

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