Surface salt bridges stabilize the GCN4 leucine zipper

Protein Science

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2431-2437

  Spek, Erik J ^a   Bui, Au H ^a   Lu, Min ^b   Kallenbach, Neville R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

GCN4; Leucine zipper; Salt bridge; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0031764838     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560071121     Document Type: Article

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