Structural insights into the evolution of a sexy protein: Novel topology and restricted backbone flexibility in a hypervariable pheromone from the red-legged salamander, plethodon shermani

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Wilburn, Damien B ^a   Bowen, Kathleen E ^a   Doty, Kari A ^a   Arumugam, Sengodagounder ^a   Lane, Andrew N ^a   Feldhoff, Pamela W ^a   Feldhoff, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; PHEROMONE; PLETHODONTID MODULATING FACTOR; THREE FINGER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMPHIBIAN PROTEIN; DISULFIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SEX PHEROMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; GENE DUPLICATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLETHODON SHERMANI; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SALAMANDER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PICHIA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; URODELA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; DISULFIDES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PICHIA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SEX ATTRACTANTS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; URODELA;

EID: 84901321535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096975     Document Type: Article

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