Differences in intradomain and interdomain motion confer distinct activation properties to structurally similar Gα proteins

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

Volumn 109, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 7275-7279

  Jones, Janice C ^a   Jones, Alan M ^a,b   Temple, Brenda R S ^a,b   Dohlman, Henrik G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GI-GO; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GQ-G11; GUANOSINE 5'-O-(3-THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84860799284     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202943109     Document Type: Article

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