Principles of protein stability derived from protein engineering experiments

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 75-83

  Fersht, Alan R ^a   Serrano, Luis ^b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b Lab Europ de Biol Molec   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; HISTIDINE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DISULFIDE BOND; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 0027462173     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0959-440X(93)90205-Y     Document Type: Article

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