Polar groups in membrane channels: Consequences of replacing alanines with serines in membrane-spanning gramicidin channels

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 6856-6865

  Daily, Anna E ^a   Kim, Jung H ^b   Greathouse, Denise V ^a   Andersen, Olaf S ^b   Koeppe, Roger E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; CHANNEL STRUCTURES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTRA; GRAMICIDIN A; GRAMICIDIN CHANNELS; HEAD-TO-HEAD DIMERS; HYBRID CHANNELS; HYDROCARBON CORES; HYDROGEN BONDINGS; HYDROPHOBIC CORE; HYDROXYL GROUPS; LIPID BILAYER MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE CHANNELS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLANAR BILAYERS; POLAR GROUPS; REFERENCE CHANNELS; SIDE CHAINS; SUBUNIT INTERFACES;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; DICHROISM; HYDROCARBONS; LIPID BILAYERS; OLIGOMERS; PHOSPHATASES;

AMINO ACIDS;

ALANINE; CATION; DIMER; GRAMICIDIN A; HYDROCARBON; HYDROXYL GROUP; LIPID; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ENERGY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYBRID; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; ION CONDUCTANCE; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALANINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GRAMICIDIN; ION CHANNELS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SERINE;

EID: 77955571740     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi100857g     Document Type: Article

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