Rapid cooperative two-state folding of a miniature α-β protein and design of a thermostable variant

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 326, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1261-1270

  Horng, Jia Cherng ^a   Moroz, Viktor ^a   Raleigh, Daniel P ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

L9; Protein design; Protein folding; Protein stability; Protein thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMIDE; GLOBULAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; KINETICS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN VARIANT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 0037470575     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00028-7     Document Type: Article

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