Crystal structure of a BCL-W domain-swapped dimer: Implications for the function of BCL-2 family proteins

Structure

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1467-1476

  Lee, Erinna F ^a,b   Dewson, Grant ^a,b   Smith, Brian J ^a,b   Evangelista, Marco ^a,b   Pettikiriarachchi, Anne ^a,b   Dogovski, Con ^c   Perugini, Matthew A ^c   Colman, Peter M ^a,b   Fairlie, W Douglas ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL W;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CALORIMETRY; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBROBLASTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; MICE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; RETROVIRIDAE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 80054079108     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: 18784186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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