High-Resolution Structural Validation of the Computational Redesign of Human U1A Protein

Structure

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 847-856

  Dobson, Neil ^b   Dantas, Gautam ^a   Baker, David ^a   Varani, Gabriele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN; PROTEIN U1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATOM; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY; EXPERIMENTATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33646373921     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2006.02.011     Document Type: Article

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