Tyrosine hydrogen bonds make a large contribution to protein stability

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 312, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 393-404

  Pace, C Nick ^a,b   Horn, Geoffrey ^a   Hebert, Eric J ^b   Bechert, John ^b   Shaw, Kevin ^b   Urbanikova, Lubica ^c   Scholtz, J Martin ^a,b   Sevcik, Jozef ^c  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute of Molecular Biology Slovak Academy of Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Hydrogen bonding; Protein folding; Protein stability; Ribonucleases; Tyrosine

Indexed keywords

PHENYLALANINE; RIBONUCLEASE; TYROSINE; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; STREPTOMYCES AUREOFACIENS;

EID: 0035860350     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4956     Document Type: Article

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