Biophysical characterization of the unstructured cytoplasmic domain of the human neuronal adhesion protein neuroligin 3

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1928-1944

  Paz, Aviv ^a   Zeev Ben Mordehai, Tzviya ^a   Lundqvist, Martin ^b   Sherman, Eilon ^a   Mylonas, Efstratios ^c   Weiner, K Lev ^a   Haran, Gilad ^a   Svergun, Dmitri I ^c,d   Mulder, Frans A A ^b   Sussman, Joel L ^a   Silman, Israel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROLIGIN 3;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOPHYSICS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 50349090754     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.126995     Document Type: Article

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