Exploring knotting mechanisms in protein folding

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

Volumn 105, Issue 48, 2008, Pages 18740-18745

  Mallam, Anna L ^a   Morris, Elizabeth R ^a   Jackson, Sophie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intermediate states; Knotted proteins; Methyltransferases; Parallel pathways; Trefoil knot

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE; PROLINE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YIBK;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; ISOMERIZATION; KINETICS; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POINT MUTATION; PROLINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

LOTUS;

EID: 57749087005     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806697105     Document Type: Article

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