Effects of Cavity-Forming Mutations on the Internal Dynamics of Azurin

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1149-1159

  Cioni, Patrizia ^a   De Waal, Ellen ^b   Canters, Gerard W ^b   Strambini, Giovanni B ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDE; AZURIN; CADMIUM; MUTANT PROTEIN; SOLVENT; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMATOPHORE; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENTHALPY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SOLUTE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 1142310676     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74189-2     Document Type: Article

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