Polar/Ionizable Residues in Transmembrane Segments: Effects on Helix-Helix Packing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Bañó Polo, Manuel ^a   Baeza Delgado, Carlos ^a   Orzáez, Mar ^b   Marti Renom, Marc A ^c,d   Abad, Concepción ^a   Mingarro, Ismael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^c Structural Genomics Team   (Spain)

^d CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCOPHORIN A; LYSINE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE; MICELLE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOPHORIN; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICELLES; MICROSOMES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84866342670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044263     Document Type: Article

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