The βγ-crystallin superfamily contains a universal motif for binding calcium

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 51, 2009, Pages 12180-12190

  Aravind, Penmatsa ^a   Mishra, Amita ^a   Suman, Shashi Kumar ^a   Jobby, Maroor K ^a,b   Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ^a   Sharma, Yogendra ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STABILIZATION; ARCHAEA; BINDING ABILITIES; BINDING ACTIVITIES; BINDING PROTEINS; BINDING RESIDUES; BINDING STUDIES; CRYSTALLIN; DOMAIN TOPOLOGY; HIGH RESOLUTION CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR PROPERTIES; STRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PROTEINS;

CALCIUM;

AMINO ACID; BETAGAMMA CRYSTALLIN; CALCIUM ION; CRYSTALLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CALCIUM BINDING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VERTEBRATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 73149109478     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi9017076     Document Type: Article

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