Contribution of surface salt bridges to protein stability: Guidelines for protein engineering

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 327, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1135-1148

  Makhatadze, George I ^a   Loladze, Vakhtang V ^a   Ermolenko, Dmitri N ^a,b   Chen, XiaoFen ^a   Thomas, Susan T ^a,c  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BACH INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Protein engineering; Protein stability; Surface salt bridges

Indexed keywords

GLOBULAR PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 0037432563     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00233-X     Document Type: Article

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