Slow conformational exchange and overall rocking motion in ubiquitin protein crystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Kurauskas, Vilius ^a,b,c   Izmailov, Sergei A ^d   Rogacheva, Olga N ^d   Hessel, Audrey ^a,b,c   Ayala, Isabel ^a,b,c   Woodhouse, Joyce ^a,b,c   Shilova, Anastasya ^e   Xue, Yi ^f   Yuwen, Tairan ^f   Coquelle, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Colletier, Jacques Philippe ^a,b,c   Skrynnikov, Nikolai R ^d,f   Schanda, Paul ^a,b,c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^d ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROBE; PROTEIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISPERSION; ENTAMOEBA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; KINETICS; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 85026325162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00165-8     Document Type: Article

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