Exploring Sequence/Folding Space: Folding Studies on Multiple Hydrophobic Core Mutants of Ubiquitin

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 5195-5203

  Benítez Cardoza, Claudia G ^a   Stott, Katherine ^a   Hirshberg, Miriam ^a   Went, Heather M ^a   Woolfson, Derek N ^b   Jackson, Sophie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN BONDS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RATE CONSTANTS;

HYDROPHOBIC CORE; MUTATIONS; RESIDUE CHANGES;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

UBIQUITIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTANT; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE MEASUREMENT; GUANIDINE; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 2442487951     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0361620     Document Type: Article

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