Fluorescence properties of a tryptophan residue in an aromatic core of the protein subunit of ribonuclease P from Escherichia coli

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 765-769

  Gopalan, Venkat ^a   Golbik, Ralph ^b   Schreiber, Gideon ^b   Fersht, Alan R ^b   Altman, Sidney ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hydrophobic interactions; RNase P protein subunit; Trp fluorescence

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEASE P; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0031564612     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.0907     Document Type: Editorial

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