Structural Stabilities of Different Regions of the Titin I27 Domain Contribute Differently to Unfolding upon Mitochondrial Protein Import

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 385, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 811-819

  Oguro, Takaomi ^a   Yagawa, Keisuke ^a   Momose, Takaki ^a   Sato, Takehiro ^a   Yamano, Koji ^a   Endo, Toshiya ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

mitochondrial protein import; titin; unfolding; yeast

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CONNECTIN; CORE PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PB2 PROTEIN; TITIN 127; TRYPTOPHAN 34; TRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WILD TYPE;

EID: 58149141406     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.10.076     Document Type: Article

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