Site-selective control of the reactivity of surface-exposed histidine residues in designed four-helix-bundle catalysts

Folding and Design

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 303-312

  Broo, Kerstin S ^a   Brive, Lars ^a   Sott, Richard S ^a   Baltzer, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Catalysis; De novo design; Histidine; PK(a); Reactivity

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM; HYDROPHOBICITY; PKA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REACTION ANALYSIS; RESIDUE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031867874     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(98)00041-8     Document Type: Article

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