Computational Design and Characterization of a Monomeric Helical Dinuclear Metalloprotein

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 334, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1101-1115

  Calhoun, Jennifer R ^a   Kono, Hidetoshi ^a,b   Lahr, Steven ^c   Wang, Wei ^a   DeGrado, William F ^a   Saven, Jeffery G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c CENTOCOR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational protein design; de novo design; di iron proteins; Metalloprotein; Side chain modeling

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; COBALT; IRON; LIGAND; MANGANESE; METAL ION; METALLOPROTEIN; OLIGOMER; ZINC ION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOICHIOMETRY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0345304457     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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