β-Turn propensities as paradigms for the analysis of structural motifs to engineer protein stability

Protein Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 233-241

  Ohage, Ettore C ^a   Graml, Werner ^a   Walter, Monika M ^a   Steinbacher, Stefan ^b   Steipe, Boris ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c Genzentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

cooperativity; immunoglobulin variable domain; protein engineering; protein stability; site directed mutagenesis; turn

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031022599     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560060125     Document Type: Article

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