Effects of serine-to-cysteine mutations on β-lactamase folding

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1707-1718

  Santos, Javier ^b   Risso, Valeria A ^b   Sica, Mauricio P ^b   Ermácora, Mario R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CYSTEINE; SERINE; THIOL GROUP;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; ENERGY; ENZYME STABILITY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; WILD TYPE;

EID: 34548643897     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.103804     Document Type: Article

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