A vitellogenin polyserine cleavage site: Highly disordered conformation protected from proteolysis by phosphorylation

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1837-1846

  Havukainen, Heli ^a,b   Underhaug, Jarl ^b   Wolschin, Florian ^a,c   Amdam, Gro ^a,c   Halskau, Øyvind ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Honeybee; NMR; Phosphorylation; Polyserine linker; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; POLYSERINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VITELLOGENIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEES; BINDING SITES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEOLYSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VITELLOGENINS; WASPS;

APIS MELLIFERA; BOMBUS IGNITUS; HEXAPODA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; PIMPLA NIPPONICA;

EID: 84861637824     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.065623     Document Type: Article

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