A polar, solvent-exposed residue can be essential for native protein structure

Structure

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 471-479

  Hill, R Blake ^a   DeGrado, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational specificity; De novo protein design; Dimeric proteins; Four helix bundle; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

M PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMOSTABILITY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 0034657321     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(00)00130-1     Document Type: Article

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