How important are transmembrane helices of bitopic membrane proteins?

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1768, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 387-392

  Zviling, Moti ^a   Kochva, Uzi ^a   Arkin, Isaiah T ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 33847233683     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2006.11.019     Document Type: Article

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