Thermodynamic Properties of BPTI Variants with Highly Simplified Amino Acid Sequences

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 372, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 737-746

  Kato, Atsushi ^a   Yamada, Munetaka ^a   Nakamura, Shigeyoshi ^b   Kidokoro, Shun ichi ^b   Kuroda, Yutaka ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

alanine scanning; BPTI; DSC; information degeneracy; protein stability

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; APROTININ;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 34548185862     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.06.066     Document Type: Article

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