Engineering stabilising β-sheet interactions into a conformationally flexible region of the folding transition state of ubiquitin

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 353, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 373-384

  Bofill, Roger ^a,b   Searle, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Non native interactions; Protein engineering; Protein folding; Ubiquitin; hairpin stabilisation

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; POLYPEPTIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UBIQUITIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFORMATION; DENATURATION; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 25144507750     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.08.044     Document Type: Article

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