Domain-domain interface packing at conserved Trp-20 in class α glutathione transferase impacts on protein stability

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Volumn 1478, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 325-332

  Wallace, Louise A ^a   Burke, Jonathan ^a   Dirr, Heini W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Domain interface; Folding; Glutathione transferase; Stability

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; UREA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; RAT; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME STABILITY; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN FOLDING; TRYPTOPHAN; UREA;

EID: 0034705157     PISSN: 01674838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(00)00023-6     Document Type: Article

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