Electrostatic strengths of salt bridges in thermophilic and mesophilic glutamate dehydrogenase monomers

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 368-383

  Kumar, Sandeep ^a   Ma, Buyong ^b   Tsai, Chung Jung ^b   Nussinov, Ruth ^a,c  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electrostatics; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Melting temperature; Salt bridge; Thermostability

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMOSTABILITY;

CLOSTRIDIUM; ELECTROSTATICS; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HEAT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; SALTS;

EID: 0033994586     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(20000301)38:4<368::AID-PROT3>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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