Human hair keratin-associated proteins: Sequence regularities and structural implications

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 361-369

  Parry, David A D ^a   Smith, Thomasin A ^a   Rogers, Michael A ^b   Schweizer, Jürgen ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hair; Intermediate filaments; Keratin

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; ISOPROTEIN; KERATIN; PENTAPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIS ISOMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISULFIDE BOND; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HAIR; HUMANS; KERATINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33747791358     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2006.03.018     Document Type: Article

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