A structural dissection of amino acid substitutions in helical transmembrane proteins

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 78, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2895-2907

  Mokrab, Younes ^a,b   Stevens, Tim J ^a   Mizuguchi, Kenji ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid substitution; Helical transmembrane proteins; Lipid bilayer; Local structure environment; Protein structure; Structural bioinformatics

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; HYDROCARBON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROLINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHILICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 77958003820     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22809     Document Type: Article

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