Structure of membrane-bound α-synuclein from site-directed spin labeling and computational refinement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 50, 2008, Pages 19666-19671

  Jao, Christine C ^a   Hegde, Balachandra G ^a   Chenb, Jeannie ^a   Haworth, Ian S ^a,b   Langen, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

11 aa repeats; EPR; Fibril forming proteins; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMPHOLYTE; DETERGENT; GLUTAMINE; LIPID; LYSINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPIN LABELING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 58149380718     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807826105     Document Type: Article

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