Conserved lipid-binding sites in membrane proteins: a focus on cytochrome c oxidase

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 444-450

  Qin, Ling ^a   Sharpe, Martyn A ^a   Garavito, R Michael ^a   Ferguson Miller, Shelagh ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 34548842221     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2007.07.001     Document Type: Review

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