Limulus polyphemus Hemocyanin: 10 Å Cryo-EM Structure, Sequence Analysis, Molecular Modelling and Rigid-body Fitting Reveal the Interfaces Between the Eight Hexamers

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 366, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1332-1350

  Martin, Andreas G ^a   Depoix, Frank ^a   Stohr, Michael ^a   Meissner, Ulrich ^a   Hagner Holler, Silke ^a   Hammouti, Kada ^a   Burmester, Thorsten ^a   Heyd, Jochen ^b   Wriggers, Willy ^b   Markl, Jürgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; amino acid sequence; cryo electron microscopy; hemocyanin; quaternary structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HEMOCYANIN; HISTIDINE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 33846638741     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.11.075     Document Type: Article

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