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Solution structure of the cysteine-rich domain in Fn14, a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily

  1. Fahu He1,†,
  2. Weirong Dang1,†,
  3. Kohei Saito1,
  4. Satoru Watanabe1,
  5. Naohiro Kobayashi1,
  6. Peter Güntert1,2,3,
  7. Takanori Kigawa1,4,
  8. Akiko Tanaka1,
  9. Yutaka Muto1,*,
  10. Shigeyuki Yokoyama1,5,*

Article first published online: 6 JAN 2009

DOI: 10.1002/pro.49

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Protein Science

Protein Science

Volume 18, Issue 3, pages 650–656, March 2009

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He, F., Dang, W., Saito, K., Watanabe, S., Kobayashi, N., Güntert, P., Kigawa, T., Tanaka, A., Muto, Y. and Yokoyama, S. (2009), Solution structure of the cysteine-rich domain in Fn14, a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily. Protein Science, 18: 650–656. doi: 10.1002/pro.49

Author Information

  1. 1

    RIKEN, Systems and Structural Biology Center, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan

  2. 2

    Tatsuo Miyazawa Memorial Program, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan

  3. 3

    Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  4. 4

    Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan

  5. 5

    Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

  1. †

    Fahu He and Weirong Dang contributed equally to this work.

*RIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center, 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 23 FEB 2009
  2. Article first published online: 6 JAN 2009
  3. Accepted manuscript online: 6 JAN 2009 12:00AM EST
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 17 NOV 2008
  5. Manuscript Received: 10 OCT 2008

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  • RIKEN Structural Genomics/Proteomics Initiative (RSGI)
  • The National Project on Protein Structural and Functional Analyses of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT)
  • Scientific Research of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and by the Volkswagen Foundation

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