Thermodynamics of replacing an α-helical pro residue in the p40S mutant of Escherichia-coli thioredoxin

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2455-2459

  Chakrabarti, Atis ^a   Srivastava, Sarika ^a   Swaminathan, Chittoor P ^a   Surolia, Avadhesha ^a   Varadarajan, Raghavan ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Proline mutant; Stability; Thioredoxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; MUTANT PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROLINE; THIOREDOXIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032698760     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.11.2455     Document Type: Article

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