Membrane curvature sensing by the C-terminal domain of complexin

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Snead, David ^a   Wragg, Rachel T ^a   Dittman, Jeremy S ^a   Eliezer, David ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COMPLEXIN I; LIPID; NERVE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; SNARE PROTEIN; VESICULAR TRANSPORT ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

COMPLEXATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE; MUTATION; NEUROLOGY;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; EXOCYTOSIS; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE BINDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENE DELETION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SYNAPSE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, VESICULAR TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE DELETION; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LIPIDS; LIPOSOMES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SNARE PROTEINS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84923294025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5955     Document Type: Article

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