Protein Dimerization and Oligomerization in Biology

Editor
Jaqueline M. Matthews
School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

This book is co-published with Springer.
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ISBN: 978-1-4614-3228-9
Pub Date: May 17, 2012
Pages: 184
Figures: 43
Tables: 5

About this Book

• Covers many aspects of hetero-oligomerization

• Gives comprehensive overview of the contributions of protein dimer and oligomer formation to nucleic acid binding

• Provides an overview of repeat proteins


Table of Contents

1. Dimers, Oligomers, Everywhere
Jacqueline M. Matthews and Margaret Sunde

2. The Detection and Quantitation of Protein Oligomerization
David A. Gell, Richard P. Grant and Joel P. Mackay

3. Computational and Structural Characterisation of Protein Associations
Susan Jones

4. Death by Caspase Dimerization
Sarah H. MacKenzie and A. Clay Clark

5. The Relationship between Oligomeric State and Protein Function
Michael D.W. Griffin and Juliet A. Gerrard

6. Oligonucleotide Binding Proteins: The Occurrence of Dimer and Multimer Formation
Jackie Wilce, Julian Vivian and Matthew Wilce

7. Homo‑ and Heterodimerization in Transcriptional Regulation
Alister P. W. Funnell and Merlin Crossley

8. Oligomerization at the Membrane: Potassium Channel Structure and Function
Oliver B. Clarke and Jacqueline M. Gulbis

9. Implications of 3D Domain Swapping for Protein Folding, Misfolding and Function
Frederic Rousseau, Joost Schymkowitz and Laura S. Itzhaki

10. From Artificial Antibodies to Nanosprings: The Biophysical Properties of Repeat Proteins
Laura S. Itzhaki and Alan R. Lowe

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