The Stability of Transmembrane Helix Interactions Measured in a Biological Membrane

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 358, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1221-1228

  Finger, Carmen ^a   Volkmer, Thomas ^a   Prodöhl, Alexander ^a   Otzen, Daniel E ^b   Engelman, Donald M ^c   Schneider, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GALLEX; membrane protein folding; stability; transmembrane helix; G, dimerization

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GLYCINE; GLYCOPHORIN A; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646078118     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.02.065     Document Type: Article

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