Electrostatic contributions to protein stability and folding energy

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2065-2071

  Roca, Maite ^a   Messer, Benjamin ^a   Warshel, Arieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric constants; Electrostatics in proteins; Folding energy; Protein stability

Indexed keywords

COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UBIQUITIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN VARIANT; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ELECTROSTATICS; LIPASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 34247596467     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.04.025     Document Type: Article

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