Functional and Structural Role of Amino Acid Residues in the Odd-numbered Transmembrane α-Helices of the Bovine Mitochondrial Oxoglutarate Carrier

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 369, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 400-412

  Cappello, Anna R ^a,b   Miniero, Daniela V ^a   Curcio, Rosita ^a   Ludovico, Anna ^a   Daddabbo, Lucia ^a   Stipani, Italo ^a,c   Robinson, Alan J ^d   Kunji, Edmund R S ^d   Palmieri, Ferdinando ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cysteine scanning mutagenesis; membrane transport proteins; mitochondria; oxoglutarate carrier; structural modeling

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE TRANSLOCASE; AMINO ACID; CARBOXYL GROUP; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; HYDROXYL GROUP; LEUCINE; MALIC ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THIOL REAGENT;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MITOCHONDRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BOVINAE;

EID: 34247636658     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.03.048     Document Type: Article

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