Supercoiled Protein Motifs: The Collagen Triple-Helix and the α-Helical Coiled Coil

Predicting Coiled Coils from Protein Sequences

1991 • 3,977 citations

cDNA Cloning and Expression of a Novel Adipose Specific Collagen-like Factor, apM1 (AdiposeMost Abundant Gene Transcript 1)

1996 • 2,082 citations

The packing of α-helices: simple coiled-coils

1953 • 1,549 citations

A Switch Between Two-, Three-, and Four-stranded Coiled Coils in GCN4 Leucine Zipper Mutants

1993 • 1,456 citations

Coiled coils: new structures and new functions

1996 • 1,196 citations

Crystal and Molecular Structure of a Collagen-Like Peptide at 1.9 Å Resolution

1994 • 1,043 citations

Stability of proteins. Proteins which do not present a single cooperative system.

1982 • 1,041 citations

Type I macrophage scavenger receptor contains α-helical and collagen-like coiled coils

1990 • 1,039 citations

Connective Tissue and Its Heritable Disorders

2002 • 930 citations

Stability of Proteins

1982 • 718 citations

Molecular Structure of Collagen

1963 • 715 citations

Structure of Collagen

1955 • 701 citations

Hydration structure of a collagen peptide

1995 • 595 citations

Cloning of a novel bacteria-binding receptor structurally related to scavenger receptors and expressed in a subset of macrophages

1995 • 501 citations

Crystal structure of an isoleucine-zipper trimer

1994 • 467 citations

Compound Helical Configurations of Polypeptide Chains: Structure of Proteins of the α-Keratin Type

1953 • 419 citations

Transcription factors 1: bZIP proteins.

1995 • 385 citations

Gly-X-Y Tripeptide Frequencies in Collagen: A Context for Host–Guest Triple-Helical Peptides

1998 • 368 citations

Mutations in fibrillar collagens (types I, II, III, and XI), fibril-associated collagen (type IX), and network-forming collagen (type X) cause a spectrum of diseases of bone, cartilage, and blood vessels

1997 • 341 citations

Crystal Structure of the Repetitive Segments of Spectrin

1993 • 341 citations

Structure of Collagen

1954 • 316 citations

Chain conformation in the collagen molecule

1979 • 315 citations

Trimeric structure of a C-type mannose-binding protein

1994 • 312 citations

The Tabby phenotype is caused by mutation in a mouse homologue of theEDAgene that reveals novel mouse and human exons and encodes a protein (ectodysplasin-A) with collagenous domains

1997 • 305 citations

The Crystal Structure of a Five-Stranded Coiled Coil in COMP: A Prototype Ion Channel?

1996 • 300 citations

Conformation of fibrous proteins

1974 • 280 citations

Molecular flypaper, host defense, and atherosclerosis. Structure, binding properties, and functions of macrophage scavenger receptors.

1993 • 271 citations

Heptad breaks in α-helical coiled coils: Stutters and stammers

1996 • 266 citations

The Zipper-Like Folding Of Collagen Triple Helices And The Effects Of Mutations That Disrupt The Zipper

1991 • 262 citations

Molecular Cloning of a Novel Laminin Chain, α5, and Widespread Expression in Adult Mouse Tissues

1995 • 246 citations

Human mannose-binding protein carbohydrate recognition domain trimerizes through a triple α-helical coiled-coil

1994 • 244 citations

Predicting coiled-coil regions in proteins

1997 • 231 citations

NuMA: an unusually long coiled-coil related protein in the mammalian nucleus.

1992 • 231 citations

The triple helix ⇌ coil conversion of collagen‐like polytripeptides in aqueous and nonaqueous solvents. Comparison of the thermodynamic parameters and the binding of water to (<scp>L</scp>‐Pro‐<scp>L</scp>‐Pro‐Gly)_n and (<scp>L</scp>‐Pro‐<scp>L</scp>‐Hyp‐Gly)_n

1977 • 214 citations

Collectins — soluble proteins containing collagenous regions and lectin domains — and their roles in innate immunity

1994 • 200 citations

X-ray diffraction evidence for α-helical coiled-coils in native muscle

1963 • 200 citations

Coiled-coils in α-helix-containing proteins: analysis of the residue types within the heptad repeat and the use of these data in the prediction of coiled-coils in other proteins

1982 • 187 citations

Extracellular matrix 1: Fibril-forming collagens.

1995 • 182 citations

α-Helical Protein Assembly Motifs

1997 • 178 citations

Cloning of Tabby, the murine homolog of the human EDA gene: evidence for a membrane-associated protein with a short collagenous domain

1997 • 176 citations

Crystal and molecular structure of a collagen-like polypeptide (Pro-Pro-Gly)10

1981 • 176 citations

Cloning of type XVII collagen. Complementary and genomic DNA sequences of mouse 180-kilodalton bullous pemphigoid antigen (BPAG2) predict an interrupted collagenous domain, a transmembrane segment, and unusual features in the 5‘-end of the gene and the 3‘-untranslated region of the mRNA.

1993 • 175 citations

The Structure of Fibrous Proteins of the Collagen-Gelatin Group

1951 • 175 citations

Amino-Acid Sequence of Rabbit Skeletal Tropomyosin and Its Coiled-Coil Structure

1972 • 165 citations

Cell adhesion, spreading and neurite stimulation by laminin fragment E8 depends on maintenance of secondary and tertiary structure in its rod and globular domain

1990 • 163 citations

Molecular cloning and characterization of ficolin, a multimeric protein with fibrinogen- and collagen-like domains

1993 • 155 citations

Identification of the molecular recognition sequence which determines the type-specific assembly of procollagen

1997 • 152 citations

Primary structure of a collagenic tail peptide of Torpedo acetylcholinesterase: co-expression with catalytic subunit induces the production of collagen-tailed forms in transfected cells.

1991 • 139 citations

Characterization of Human Type III Collagen Expressed in a Baculovirus System

1996 • 130 citations

A parallel three stranded α‐helical bundle at the nucleation site of collagen triple‐helix formation

1994 • 122 citations

Biology of Invertebrate and Lower Vertebrate Collagens

1986 • 116 citations

Perspectives on the synthesis and application of triple-helical, collagen-model peptides

1996 • 114 citations

Altered collagen structure in mouse tail tendon lacking the α2(I) chain

1997 • 113 citations

The Structure of Hair, Muscle, and Related Proteins

1951 • 109 citations

Tenascin-C Hexabrachion Assembly Is a Sequential Two-step Process Initiated by Coiled-coil α-Helices

1998 • 108 citations

Folding of carboxyl domain and assembly of procollagen I.

1986 • 108 citations

Fungal fimbriae are composed of collagen.

1996 • 106 citations

The role of helix formation in the folding of a fully α-helical coiled coil

1996 • 105 citations

Ionic Interactions in the Coiled-coil Domain of Laminin Determine the Specificity of Chain Assembly

1993 • 102 citations

Croonian Lecture - On the structure of biological fibres and the problem of muscle

1947 • 102 citations

Identification of novel blood proteins specific for mammalian hibernation.

1992 • 101 citations

A Template-Induced Incipient Collagen-Like Triple-Helical Structure

1996 • 90 citations

Capsomer proteins of bacteriophage PRD1, a bacterial virus with a membrane

1990 • 90 citations

A Modified Differential Refractometer

1954 • 86 citations

Structures of Class A Macrophage Scavenger Receptors

1996 • 86 citations

Positional Preferences of Ionizable Residues in Gly-X-YTriplets of the Collagen Triple-helix

1997 • 83 citations

Analysis of the three-alpha-helix motif in the spectrin superfamily of proteins

1992 • 83 citations

Fungal fimbriae are composed of collagen.

1996 • 82 citations

α-Helical coiled-coil oligomerization domains in extracellular proteins

1997 • 79 citations

Helix-Coil Transition in Collagen. Evidence for a Single-Stranded Triple Helix^*

1967 • 75 citations

Ciba Foundation Symposium ‐ Principles of Biomolecular Organization

1966 • 74 citations

Structure of tropomyosin at 9 Ångstroms resolution

1992 • 65 citations

Two Oligomeric Forms of Plasma Ficolin Have Differential Lectin Activity

1997 • 65 citations

A Recombinant Form of the Human BP180 Ectodomain Forms a Collagen-like Homotrimeric Complex

1997 • 65 citations

A single amino acid can switch the oligomerization state of the α-helical coiled-coil domain of cartilage matrix protein

1997 • 50 citations

Triple Helix Formation of Procollagen Type I Can Occur at the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane

1996 • 50 citations

HELICAL POLYPEPTIDE CHAIN CONFIGURATION IN COLLAGEN¹

1953 • 47 citations

Evidence for a specific mechanism of laminin assembly

1990 • 47 citations

Direct NMR Measurement of the Folding Kinetics of a Trimeric Peptide

1996 • 46 citations

Collagen-like sequences stabilize homotrimers of a bacterial hydrolase.

1988 • 44 citations

Real-time NMR investigations of triple-helix folding and collagen folding diseases

1997 • 41 citations

NMR and x-ray studies of collagen model peptides.

1996 • 37 citations

Single‐chain triple helical structure

1968 • 35 citations

Phylogenetic occurrence of coiled coil proteins: Implications for tissue structure in metazoa via a coiled coil tissue matrix

1996 • 34 citations

The GCN4 leucine zipper can functionally substitute for the heat shock transcription factor’s trimerization domain

1997 • 33 citations

NMR and x-ray studies of collagen model peptides

1996 • 32 citations