Function of human Rh based on structure of RhCG at 2.1 Å

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

Volumn 107, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 9638-9643

  Gruswitz, Franz ^a,b   Chaudhary, Sarika ^a,b   Ho, Joseph D ^a,b   Schlessinger, Avner ^b   Pezeshki, Bobak ^a,b   Ho, Chi Min ^a,b   Sali, Andrej ^a,b   Westhoff, Connie M ^c   Stroud, Robert M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia channel; Comparative modeling; Membrane protein; Rhesus factor; X ray structure

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLYCOPROTEIN; RHESUS ANTIGEN; RHESUS C GLYCOPROTEIN; RHESUS D ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOLIPOSOME; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMMONIA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77953097228     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003587107     Document Type: Article

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