Design of highly stable functional GroEL minichaperones

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2186-2193

  Wang, Qinghua ^a   Buckle, Ashley M ^a   Foster, Nicholas W ^a   Johnson, Christopher M ^a   Fersht, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Protein engineering; Protein stability; Refolding chromatography; Sequence homology

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032885223     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.10.2186     Document Type: Article

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