Residue-specific contact order and contact breadth in single-domain proteins: Implications for folding as a function of chain elongation

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 570-575

  Kurt, Neşe ^a   Mounce, Bryan C ^a   Ellison, Paul A ^a,b   Cavagnero, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ENGINEERS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROTEINS; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS (AICHE); C TERMINUS; CHAIN ELONGATION; CHAIN TERMINI; COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; DESCRIPTOR; IN-VIVO; INCLUSION BODIES; INTRA MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS; POLYPEPTIDE CHAINS; PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS; PROTEIN INTERACTION NETWORKS; PROTEIN MISFOLDING; SINGLE DOMAIN PROTEINS; SINGLE DOMAINS; SOLUBLE PROTEINS; SPECIFIC CONTACT;

PROTEIN FOLDING;

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 45149120744     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp070475v     Document Type: Conference Paper

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