Crystal structures of Drosophila N-cadherin ectodomain regions reveal a widely used class of Ca 2+-free interdomain linkers

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

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Jin, Xiangshu ^a   Walker, Melissa A ^a   Felsövályi, Klára ^a   Vendome, Jeremie ^a   Bahna, Fabiana ^a   Mannepalli, Seetha ^a   Cosmanescu, Filip ^a   Ahlsen, Goran ^a   Honig, Barry ^a   Shapiro, Lawrence ^a,b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Edward S Harkness Eye Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CALCIUM ION; DROSOPHILA N CADHERIN; HOMODIMER; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC ION;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOPHYSICS; CALCIUM BINDING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ADHESIVENESS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CALCIUM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84856367990     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117538108     Document Type: Article

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