A βα-barrel built by the combination of fragments from different folds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 9942-9947

  Bharat, Tanmay A M ^a,b   Eisenbeis, Simone ^a   Zeth, Kornelius ^a   Höcker, Birte ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimeric protein; Enzyme evolution; Flavodoxin like fold; Protein design; TIM barrel

Indexed keywords

CHEY PROTEIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; HISTIDINE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPHYSICS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 48249132779     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802202105     Document Type: Article

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