Proteins with simplified hydrophobic cores compared to other packing mutants

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 239-248

  Chen, Junmei ^a,b   Lu, Zhiqiang ^a,c   Sakon, Joshua ^a   Stites, Wesley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrophobic packing; Protein structure; Side chain conformation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; PROTEIN; VALINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME STABILITY; GUANIDINE; HYDROPHOBICITY; LEUCINE; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 3042561794     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2004.02.007     Document Type: Article

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