Protein structural plasticity exemplified by insertion and deletion mutants in T4 lysozyme

Protein Science

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2399-2415

  Vetter, Ingrid R ^a,b   Baase, Walter A ^a   Heinz, Dirk W ^a,c   Xiong, Jian Ping ^a   Snow, Sheila ^a   Matthews, Brian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

deletions; insertions; lysozyme; structural plasticity; translocation

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 0030462974     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560051203     Document Type: Article

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