Insights into Molecular Plasticity of Choline Binding Proteins (Pneumococcal Surface Proteins) by SAXS

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 365, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 411-424

  Buey, Rubén M ^a   Monterroso, Begoña ^b   Menéndez, Margarita ^b   Diakun, Greg ^c   Chacón, Pablo ^a   Hermoso, Juan Antonio ^b   Díaz, J Fernando ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^c DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

analytical ultracentrifugation; choline binding proteins; protein flexibility; small angle X ray scattering; three dimensional solution structure

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CHOLINE DERIVATIVE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOMER; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33751529207     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.09.091     Document Type: Article

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