Effect of the extra N-terminal methionine residue on the stability and folding of recombinant α-lactalbumin expressed in Escherichia coli

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1179-1194

  Chaudhuri, Tapan K ^a   Horii, Katsunori ^b   Yoda, Takao ^a   Arai, Munehito ^a   Nagata, Shinji ^a   Terada, Tomoki P ^a   Uchiyama, Hidefumi ^c   Ikura, Teikichi ^a   Tsumoto, Kouhei ^b   Kataoka, Hiroshi ^a   Matsushima, Masaaki ^d   Kuwajima, Kunihiro ^a   Kumagai, Izumi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d Rational Drug Design Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conformational entropy; Extra N terminal methionine residue; Protein folding; Recombinant goat lactalbumin; X ray crystallographic study

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; ASPARTIC ACID; METHIONINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THREONINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTROPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GOAT; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PH; PKA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CAPRA HIRCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033593529     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2362     Document Type: Article

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