Competition between homodimerization and cholesterol binding to the C99 domain of the amyloid precursor protein

Biochemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 30, 2013, Pages 5051-5064

  Song, Yuanli ^a   Hustedt, Eric J ^a   Brandon, Suzanne ^a   Sanders, Charles R ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEINS; C-TERMINAL DOMAINS; CONCENTRATION RANGES; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCES (EPR); PHYSIOLOGICAL CONCENTRATIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL MEMBRANES; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; GLYCOPROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMAGNETISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

DIMERIZATION;

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; LIPID VESICLE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; BINDING SITES; CHOLESTEROL; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GLYCINE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOLYSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84881040452     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi400735x     Document Type: Article

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