Transmembrane helices that form two opposite homodimeric interactions: An asparagine scan study of αM and β2 integrins

Protein Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 930-938

  Parthasarathy, Krupakar ^a   Lin, Xin ^a   Suet, Mien Tan ^a   Law, S K Alex ^a   Torres, Jaume ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asparagine scan; GxxxG motif; Infrared; Integrins; Oligomerization; Transmembrane

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTEGRIN; ALPHA M INTEGRIN; ASPARAGINE; BETA2 INTEGRIN; HOMODIMER;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID BILAYER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; ROTATION;

EID: 43049118255     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.073234208     Document Type: Article

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