The Determinants of Carboxyl pKa Values in Turkey Ovomucoid Third Domain

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 689-704

  Li, Hui ^a   Robertson, Andrew D ^b   Jensen, Jan H ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; OVOMUCOID; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OVOMUCOID THIRD DOMAIN; PH MEASUREMENT; PKA; POISSON BOLTZMANN EQUATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEINASE INHIBITION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DEVIATION; TURKEY (BIRD); ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OVOMUCIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TURKEYS;

EID: 2942677105     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20032     Document Type: Article

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