Variability in phenylalanine side chain conformations facilitates broad substrate tolerance of fatty acid binding in cockroach milk proteins

• Partha Radhakrishnan Santhakumari ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Partha Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, KanagaVijayan Dhanabalan

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Department of Biological Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8061-1033

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• KanagaVijayan Dhanabalan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Partha Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, KanagaVijayan Dhanabalan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Saniya Virani,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Amber S. Hopf-Jannasch,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Bindley Biosciences Centre, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Joshua B. Benoit,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Gaurav Chopra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Ramaswamy Subramanian

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: subram68@purdue.edu

  Affiliations Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Department of Biological Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Bindley Biosciences Centre, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6709-190X

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