In vivo formation of allosteric aspartate transcarbamoylase containing circularly permuted catalytic polypeptide chains: Implications for protein folding and assembly

Protein Science

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1290-1300

  Zhang, Pinghui ^a,b   Schachman, H K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AmCell Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

circular permutation; cooperativity; folding; protein engineering; stability

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; POLYPEPTIDE; SPARFOSIC ACID;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLUBILITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029982529     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560050708     Document Type: Article

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