Protein plasticity to the extreme: Changing the topology of a 4-α- helical bundle with a single amino acid substitution

Structure

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 597-603

  Glykos, Nicholas M ^a   Cesareni, Gianni ^b   Kokkinidis, Michael ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bundle; Fold; Mutagenesis; Rop; Topology

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0007992814     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(99)80081-1     Document Type: Article

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