Structure of the mouse sex peptide pheromone ESP1 reveals a molecular basis for specific binding to the class C G-protein-coupled vomeronasal receptor

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 16064-16072

  Yoshinaga, Sosuke ^a   Sato, Toru ^b   Hirakane, Makoto ^a   Esaki, Kaori ^a   Hamaguchi, Takashi ^a   Haga Yamanaka, Sachiko ^b   Tsunoda, Mai ^b   Kimoto, Hiroko ^b   Shimada, Ichio ^c   Touhara, Kazushige ^b   Terasawa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING INTERFACE; CHARGE-CHARGE INTERACTIONS; EXTRACELLULAR REGION; G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTORS; METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATIONS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; AMINO ACIDS; COVALENT BONDS; MAMMALS; NEURONS;

PEPTIDES;

DISULFIDE; EXOCRINE GLAND SECRETING PEPTIDE 1; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR CLASS C; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

CELL SIGNALING; CHEMORECEPTION; G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR (GPCR); MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEUROSCIENCE; NMR; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; SEX ATTRACTANTS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84878378250     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.436782     Document Type: Article

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