Chemical disulfide mapping identifies an inhibitor cystine knot in the agouti signaling protein

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 29, 2007, Pages 5561-5565

  Yu, Bin ^a   Millhauser, Glenn L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agouti related protein; Melanocortin receptor; Pigmentation; tris(2 carboxyethyl)phosphine

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; CYSTINE; DISULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYSTINE; DISULFIDES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRYPSIN;

AGOUTI; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 36549067257     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.10.062     Document Type: Article

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