The native strains in the hydrophobic core and flexible reactive loop of a serine protease inhibitor: Crystal structure of an uncleaved α1- antitrypsin at 2.7 Å

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1181-1192

  Ryu, Seong Eon ^a   Choi, Hee Jeong ^a   Kwon, Ki Sun ^a   Lee, Kee Nyung ^a   Yu, Myeong Hee ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

conformational transition; loop flexibility; metastability; stabilizing mutations; 1 antitrypsin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030587834     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00126-8     Document Type: Article

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