Foldability of barnase mutants obtained by permutation of modules or secondary structure units

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 286, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1581-1596

  Tsuji, Toru ^a,b   Yoshida, Kenji ^b   Satoh, Akira ^b   Kohno, Toshiyuki ^b   Kobayashi, Kensei ^a   Yanagawa, Hiroshi ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Combinatorial methods; Directed evolution; Global sequence space; Module shuffling; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

BARNASE; GLOBULAR PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 0033548457     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2558     Document Type: Article

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