Increasing Protein Conformational Stability by Optimizing β-Turn Sequence

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 373, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 211-218

  Trevino, Saul R ^a   Schaefer, Stephanie ^b   Scholtz, J Martin ^a,c   Pace, C Nick ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Marian University   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

glycine; proline; protein conformational stability; turn

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; PROLINE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548567337     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.07.061     Document Type: Article

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