Pyrene fluorescence analysis offers new insights into the conformation of the lipoprotein-binding domain of human apolipoprotein E

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1766-1775

  Patel, Arti B ^a   Khumsupan, Panupon ^a   Narayanaswami, Vasanthy ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E (APOE); BINDING DOMAIN; BINDING INTERACTION; C-TERMINAL DOMAINS; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; DRIVING FORCES; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE EXCIMER; FLUORESCENCE LABELING; FREE STATE; GAIN INSIGHT; HELICAL SEGMENTS; HELIX-HELIX CONTACTS; HELIX-HELIX INTERACTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HYDROPHOBIC ENVIRONMENT; MALEIMIDES; N-TERMINAL DOMAINS; PYRENE FLUORESCENCE; SITE-SPECIFIC; SPATIAL PROXIMITY; SPECTRAL FEATURE; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION; TETRAMERS; UNIQUE FEATURES;

BINDING ENERGY; FLUOROPHORES; HYDROPHOBICITY; LOCATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PROBES; PROTEINS;

CONFORMATIONS;

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CYSTEINE; LIPOPROTEIN; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PYRENE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYRENES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 77749255554     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi901902e     Document Type: Article

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