Systematic circular permutation of an entire protein reveals essential folding elements

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 580-585

  Iwakura, Masahiro ^a   Nakamura, Tsutomu ^a,b   Yamane, Chiori ^a   Maki, Kosuke ^a  

^a NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENZYME BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NADP; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; THERMODYNAMICS; TITRIMETRY; TRYPTOPHAN; UREA;

EID: 0033923044     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76811     Document Type: Article

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