Exploring protein interiors: The role of a buried histidine in the KH module fold

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 484-496

  Fraternali, Franca ^a,c   Amodeo, Pietro ^a,b   Musco, Giovanna ^a   Nilges, Michael ^c   Pastore, Annalisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Istituto per la Chimica di Molecole di Interesse Biologico   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fmr1; Fragile X; Molecular dynamics; Stability; Vigilin

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIGILIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; WATER;

ARIA;

EID: 0033106249     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19990301)34:4<484::AID-PROT8>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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