Inter-ring communication is disrupted in the GroEL mutant Arg13 → Gly; Ala126 → Val with known crystal structure

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 258, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 732-735

  Aharoni, Amir ^a   Horovitz, Amnon ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Allosteric mechanisms; Chaperones; Mutagenesis; Negative cooperativity; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONIN; GLYCINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029877893     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0282     Document Type: Editorial

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