Effect of Interdomain Linker Length on an Antagonistic Folding-Unfolding Equilibrium between Two Protein Domains

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 386, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 854-868

  Cutler, Thomas A ^a   Mills, Brandon M ^b   Lubin, David J ^a   Chong, Lillian T ^b   Loh, Stewart N ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

barnase; coupled; molecular dynamics; mutually exclusive; ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

BARNASE; COBALT; OLIGOMER; RIBONUCLEASE; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 59649096956     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.10.090     Document Type: Article

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