Contribution of individual residues to formation of the native-like tertiary topology in the α-lactalbumin molten globule

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 167-174

  Song, Jianxing ^a   Bai, Ping ^a   Luo, Li ^a   Peng, Zheng Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alanine scanning mutagenesis; Effective concentration; Molten globule; Protein folding; lactalbumin

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALPHA LACTALBUMIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032479326     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1826     Document Type: Article

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