Conformational heterogeneity of an equilibrium folding intermediate quantified and mapped by scanning mutagenesis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 338, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 811-825

  Yan, Shude ^a,b   Gawlak, Grzegorz ^a   Smith, Jonathan ^b   Silver, Lin ^b   Koide, Akiko ^a   Koide, Shohei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational ensemble; Energy landscape; OspA, outer surface protein A; Outer surface protein A; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; Protein folding; value analysis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONFORMATION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 1942457259     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.02.063     Document Type: Article

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