Mobile unnatural amino acid side chains in the core of staphylococcal nuclease

Protein Science

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1026-1031

  Wynn, Richard ^a,d   Harkins, Paul C ^a,b   Richards, Frederic M ^a   Fox, Robert O ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^d DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

protein dynamics; protein folding; protein structure; unnatural amino acids

Indexed keywords

NUCLEASE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029977512     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560050605     Document Type: Article

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