Quantification of helix-helix binding affinities in micelles and lipid bilayers

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2600-2612

  Lomize, Andrei L ^a   Pogozheva, I D ^a   Mosberg, H I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

helix; Bacteriorhodopsin; Binding; Entropy; Glycophorin A; Membranes; Micelles; Peptides; Potentials; Solvation; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; DETERGENT; LIPID; MUTANT PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT; WATER;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CALCULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENTROPY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGAND BINDING; LIPID BILAYER; MICELLE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OLIGOMERIZATION; PARAMETER; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SOLUTE; SOLVATION; TECHNIQUE; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BACTERIORHODOPSINS; DIMERIZATION; LIGANDS; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICELLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 4644320681     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.04850804     Document Type: Article

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