The membrane interface dictates different anchor roles for "inner pair" and "outer pair" tryptophan indole rings in gramicidin A channels

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 4855-4866

  Gu, Hong ^a   Lum, Kevin ^b   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

CONFORMATIONAL PREFERENCES; DEUTERIUM LABELING; DIMER DISSOCIATION; EXPERIMENTAL SPECTRA; GRAMICIDIN A; H NMR SPECTRA; H NMR SPECTROSCOPY; HELICAL CHANNELS; INDOLE RINGS; LIPID BILAYER MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE INTERFACE; SINGLE-CHANNEL;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY; CONFORMATIONS; DEUTERIUM; DICHROISM; DIMERS; LIPID BILAYERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; SODIUM;

AMINO ACIDS;

DEUTERIUM; GRAMICIDIN A; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DEUTERON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GRAMICIDIN; INDOLES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PHENYLALANINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 79958048889     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi200136e     Document Type: Article

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