Three-dimensional structure and ligand binding properties of trichosurin, a metatherian lipocalin from the milk whey of the common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 408, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-38

  Watson, Randall P ^a   Demmer, Jerome ^b   Baker, Edward N ^a   Arcus, Vickery L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Halcyon Bioconsulting Limited   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Lipocalin; Metatherian lactation; Opossum; Protein structure; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

LIPOCALIN; LIPOPHILIC MOLECULES; METATHERIAN LACTATION; OPOSSUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

FLUORESCENCE; LIGANDS; PROTEINS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

MAMMALS;

2 NAPHTHOL; 4 ETHYLPHENOL; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; LIPOCALIN; MILK PROTEIN; TRICHOSURIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; LACTATION; LIGAND BINDING; MARSUPIAL; MILK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA; WHEY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; LIGANDS; MILK PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRICHOSURUS;

DIDELPHIDAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 36348937826     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20070567     Document Type: Article

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