Structural insights into microneme protein assembly reveal a new mode of EGF domain recognition

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1149-1155

  Sawmynaden, Kovilen ^a   Saouros, Savvas ^a   Friedrich, Nikolas ^b   Marchant, Jan ^a   Simpson, Peter ^a   Bleijlevens, Boris ^a   Blackman, Michael J ^c   Soldati Favre, Dominique ^b   Matthews, Stephen ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR 2; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR 3; GROWTH FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; HOST CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOXOPLASMA;

APICOMPLEXA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 55549094401     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.179     Document Type: Article

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