Modeling transmembrane domain dimers/trimers of plexin receptors: Implications for mechanisms of signal transmission across the membrane

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Liqun ^a   Polyansky, Anton ^b,c   Buck, Matthias ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; GLYCINE; OLIGOMER; PLEXIN; PLEXIN A1; PLEXIN A2; PLEXIN A3; PLEXIN A4; PLEXIN C1; PLEXIN D1; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; ISOPROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; PLXNA1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN; X RAY; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84926641281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121513     Document Type: Article

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