A double-deletion method to quantifying incremental binding energies in proteins from experiment: Example of a destabilizing hydrogen bonding pair

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1311-1321

  Campos, Luis A ^a   Cuesta López, Santiago ^a   López Llano, Jon ^a   Falo, Fernando ^a   Sancho, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANABAENA; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID; APOFLAVODOXIN; APOPROTEIN; FLAVODOXIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; ANABAENA; APOPROTEINS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLAVODOXIN; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 21244467453     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.050203     Document Type: Article

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