Designing redox metalloproteins from bottom-up and top-down perspectives

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 490-499

  Barker, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; AMINO ACID; APOPROTEIN; AZURIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; COBALT; CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME C PEROXIDASE; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HEMERYTHRIN; HEMOPROTEIN; IRON; LIGAND; LIPOCALIN; METAL; METAL COMPLEX; METALLOPROTEIN; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; MYOGLOBIN; OLIGOMER; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; POLYPEPTIDE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN; PYRIDINE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; RUTHENIUM; ZINC; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; BETA SHEET; BINDING AFFINITY; CATALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION; METAL BINDING; MUTATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

EID: 0041428115     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(03)00108-8     Document Type: Review

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