Disulfide-bond scanning reveals assembly state and β-strand tilt angle of the PFO β-barrel

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 383-389

  Sato, Takehiro K ^a   Tweten, Rodney K ^b   Johnson, Arthur E ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TOXIN; DIMER; DISULFIDE; MONOMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDE SCANNING; HYDROGEN BOND; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LIPOSOMES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TEMPERATURE; TRYPSIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 84879123070     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1228     Document Type: Article

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