The accessory helix of complexin functions by stabilizing central helix secondary structure

eLife

Volumn 3, Issue November, 2014, Pages 1-17

  Radoff, Daniel T ^a   Dong, Yongming ^b   Snead, David ^a   Bai, Jihong ^b   Eliezer, David ^a   Dittman, Jeremy S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDICARB; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PRESYNAPTIC PROTEIN COMPLEXIN; SNARE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENE MUTATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84926477718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.04553     Document Type: Article

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