Tropomyosin's periods are quasi-equivalent for actin binding but have specific regulatory functions

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 51, 2007, Pages 14917-14927

  Singh, Abhishek ^a,b   Hitchcock DeGregori, Sarah E ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

ACTIN; INTERHELICAL INTERFACE; MUTANTS; TROPOMYOSIN;

PROTEINS;

ACTIN; ALANINE; CALCIUM; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THERMOSTABILITY;

ACTINS; ACTOMYOSIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 37349077586     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi701570b     Document Type: Article

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