Conformations of variably linked chimeric proteins evaluated by synchrotron X-ray small-angle scattering

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 829-838

  Arai, Ryoichi ^a,b,d   Wriggers, Willy ^c   Nishikawa, Yukihiro ^b   Nagamune, Teruyuki ^a   Fujisawa, Tetsuro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fusion protein; Green fluorescent protein; Helical linker; Linker engineering; Modeling; Protein engineering; Situs; Small angle X ray scattering (SAXS)

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS; X-RAYS;

EID: 10344263901     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20244     Document Type: Article

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