Modelling and mutational evidence identify the substrate binding site and functional elements in APC amino acid transporters

Molecular Membrane Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 5-7, 2009, Pages 356-370

  Vangelatos, Ioannis ^a   Vlachakis, Dimitrios ^a   Sophianopoulou, Vicky ^a   Diallinas, George ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aspergillus nidulans; Escherichia coli; Homology threading; Permease; Protein structure; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID POLYAMINE ORGANOCATION PROTEIN; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; AMINO ACIDS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 71849092324     PISSN: 09687688     EISSN: 14645203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687680903170546     Document Type: Article

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