The role of proline residues in the structure and function of human MT2 melatonin receptor

Journal of Pineal Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 361-372

  Mazna, Petr ^a   Grycova, Lenka ^a   Balik, Ales ^a   Zemkova, Hana ^a   Friedlova, Eliska ^a   Obsilova, Veronika ^a   Obsil, Tomas ^a,b   Teisinger, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

G protein coupled melatonin receptors; Molecular dynamics; MT2 melatonin receptor; Proline

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GLYCINE; GUANOSINE 5' O (3 THIOTRIPHOSPHATE) S 35; IODOMELATONIN I 125; MELATONIN 2 RECEPTOR; PROLINE; RADIOISOTOPE; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MELATONIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROLINE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTOR, MELATONIN, MT2; SULFUR RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 53749093762     PISSN: 07423098     EISSN: 1600079X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-079X.2008.00598.x     Document Type: Article

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