Conformational states of a bacterial α2-macroglobulin resemble those of human complement C3

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Neves, David ^a,b,c   Estrozi, Leandro F ^a,b,c   Job, Viviana ^a,b,c   Gabel, Frank ^a,b,c   Schoehn, Guy ^a,b,c,d   Dessen, Andréa ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; CHYMOTRYPSIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B; ELASTASE; METHYLAMINE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALPHA-MACROGLOBULINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPLEMENT C3; COMPLEMENT C3B; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84859857519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035384     Document Type: Article

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